So we find all the mainland trails converging on the upper end of Manhattan, and all the Long Island paths trending to- ward the short ferriage over to the lower end of Manhattan, while the traffic of northeastern Jersey concentrated, through Hoboken, at the Greenwich landing, and the Richmond paths apparently led from the Minisink path, the highway of the Lenni Lenape, in the direction of the Narrows toward Manhattan.

The Manhattan pathways therefore became the chief line of intercommunication between these systems, and those natives that were seated on the island practically controlled the traffic in all directions. It is noticeable that large Indian settlements existed at those points on which traffic converged. This is evident at the upper end of Manhattan and Kingsbridge, where paths from the northeast and southeast merged at the Wading place, and certainly at the head of the Long Island system of paths the native settlements m old Brooklyn indicate concentration on the head of that important network of trails.