Thus it came to pass that those western areas lying adjacent to the Ohio and the lower Mississippi were being rapidly accu pied by settlers while there was still but a trickle of migration into the region adjoining the Great Lakes. Chiefly, too, they were populated by southern migrants who found their way into the western country either by way of the Ohio River or by traveling over land through the famous Cumberland Gap, lying near the borders of Kentucky, Tennes see, and Virginia. Only when the Erie Canal was completed m 1825 and steamboats were placed on the Upper Lakes did the tide of migrat1on Into the Great Lakes area begin in earnest.1 Thus Detroit, oldest city in interior.

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