to accomplish. Such heavy craft may well have discouraged travel by water, where INDIAN PATHS the same purpose could be accomplished afoot, even by a long detour. On the other hand, distances traversed by walking did not appear so great to the wiry native as to his heavily shod successors.

The Indians' power and endurance in traveling afoot is illustrated by the performance of a native runner who, in 1661, conveyed a letter from Newcastle, Delaware, to New York in less than five days, covering a probable distance of about 180 miles of woodland paths. A "day's walk" is the description applied in early native conveyances, covering tracts fully twenty miles in depth of hill and dale, marsh and forest.

Such a distance from the Battery would have included the vicinity of Yonkers and Larchmont on the north, Port Washington and Valley Stream on the east, Paterson and the Oranges on the west, and would have touched the region from Amboy to Atlantic Highlands on the south.