' The demarcation of such old lanes by the huge bowlders drawn from the cleared lands followed, which laborious process permanently fixed the course of such a roadway. The direction of certain of these old cartways led to their extended use and development into highways. Thus, with the aid of the records of the position of native settlements, and by recent observations and exploration, we can trace, in the known course of some ancient highway following natural lines of contour, the pathway connecting the native stations.

There is indeed historical warrant for these deductions, in the case of some known paths which, by the processes above described, became the Kingsway or the Post-road of the Colonial period. Interesting combinations of recorded fact and deduction from physical circumstances are to be found in the Indian trails on the Island of Manhattan, of Brooklyn, and the Bronx, traversing the forest-grown site of the great metropolis.

Around the site of each native settlement, other little paths branched out to all the nearby sources of food and supplies.