The marshy area was much cut up by stream and inlets, and it extended back to the high ground on the west, previously referred to, which roughly followed a line north and south. This is evidently the situation of Konaande Kongh, a particular title which is so precise that it could scarcely have been applied to a mere line of uplands, which in the other part of the deed are referred to merely as "hills" {her gen).

The topography is suited to the position of the station, in which Reckgawack and his circle of natives must have made their headquarters, on the high ground in the vicinity of, though it could not have been upon, the point. The latter was wholly unsuited for residence; for it was little more than a mound of sand, rising above the marshland, overflowed by high tides and doubtless swarming with muskrats and crabs, and, moreover, without shelter from every wind that' blew.

But on the higher ground to the southwest there was such shelter from the wintry winds, and also a good source of water-supply from two springs rising near 98th street.