P.

Palmyra (Tenn.), as river port, 74.

Pedee River, 17.

"Pennamite" war, 194.

Pennsylvania, Washington and transportation in, 9, 10-11; canals, 33-35, 136; roads, 35, 44, 45, 48-49, 50, 53-54, 119-120; "Bonnyclabber Country," 86, 87; and Great Lakes, 138; railways, 151.

Pennsylvania Canal, 132; Washington forecasts, 9; route, 139; engineering achievement, 139-140.

Pennsylvania Railroad, 142, 153; Washington and, 9-10; follows Indian trail, 29; incorporated (1846), 151; reaches Ohio River, 171.

Perkins, fur trader, 186.

Philadelphia, roads to, 48-49; meeting to protest against monopoly of Lancaster Turnpike, 55; Baily at, 84; rival of New York City, 137.

Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road Company, 53-54.

Philadelphia Road, 49.

Pickering plan of occupying West, 4.

Pike, Captain Z. M., 93.

Pioneer, stagecoach line, 122.

Pioneer (steamboat), 156.

Pitt, Fort, 28.

Pittsburgh, growth, 26, 67; trade with, 65-66, 66-67, 75; shipbuilding, 76; port of entry, 77; Baily reaches, 88.

Platt, Judge, and Erie Canal, 126, 127.

Pontiac's Rebellion, 26-27, 34.

"Pony Express," 192.

Potomac Canal Company, 143.

Potomac Company, 31-33, 138.

Potomac River, Washington's vision regarding, 8, 10; commerce on, 17-18.

Prairie (steamboat), 182.

Presq'Isle (Erie) recommended as place of embarkation, 35.

Prices in 1800, 92.

Putnam, General Rufus, advocates Pickering plan, 3-4.