Occasionally several travellers clubbed together and carried a tent; otherwise they slept in the open.

The trail was very bad, especially at first, where it climbed between the gloomy and forbidding cliffs that walled in Cumberland Gap.

Even when undisturbed by Indians, the trip was accompanied by much fatigue and exposure; and, as always in frontier travelling, one of the perpetual annoyances was the necessity for hunting up strayed horses.

[Footnote: Durrett MSS.

Journal of Rev.James Smith, 1785.] The Travel down the Ohio.
The chief highway was the Ohio River; for to drift down stream in a scow was easier and quicker, and no more dangerous, than to plod through thick mountain forests.