Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
The early settlers in New England found "trodden paths" connecting the villages of the Pequot, and also extending far inland. These formed, in fact, their only means of travel from their seashore settlements, and served the purpose of opening up the country, not only to trade, but to inspection and invasion by the whites, a result which their native creators must at times have viewed with very mixed feelings.
Leading, as they did, to the most desirable residential sites, to the best fishing-places, and the finest huntinggrounds, the trodden paths directed the invaders to the choicest parts of the land which their cupidity sought to acquire, and doubtless facilitated to a marked extent, and also advanced by a considerable period of time, the overrunning of the interior from the seaboard.