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CHAPTER XI. THE NATIONAL ROAD—THE ROAD FROM CUMBERLAND TO THE OHIO RIVER AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS IN 1806—EFFORTS TO SECURE THE TERMINI OF THE ROAD AT DIFFERENT POINTS ON THE OHIO—THE COST OF THE ROAD UP TO 1817—PRESIDENT MONROE’S INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT MESSAGE—COL. MOSES SHEPHERD, JOHN MC LURE, DANIEL STEENROD AND OTHERS, CONTRACTORS—LITIGATION—TRAVEL AND TRADE ON THE ROAD—PROPOSED CHANGE OF LOCATION—HENRY CLAY THE FRIEND OF WHEELING—THE OLD ROAD FROM WHEELING TO WEST ALEXANDER—SIXTY ODD YEARS AGO—THE “LAND ADMIRAL”—COACHES RUN FIRST TIME DAY AND NIGHT ACROSS THE ALLEGHENIES, IN 1827—ROBBERY OF THE MAIL—ARREST AND PUNISHMENT OF THE ROBBERS—IN 1835 TWO LINES OF STAGES BETWEEN WHEELING AND FREDERICK—OPPOSITION LINES—AN INCIDENT— TAVERNS OF THE OLD NATIONAL ROAD—THE WAGONERS—THE “REGULARS” AND THE “MILITIA,” SO CALLED—PRICE OF MEALS— THE “CONTINENTAL” LINE—THE OLD STAGE COACH A MEMORY.