In wet weather a clamber along the rocky hillside skirting the brook was a better route. In the Military Headquarters Map of 1782, three such routes are shown at this point, INDIAN PATHS all illustrating the strategic value of the place as that best suited to the scaling of the hill, and the seasonal difficulties which were encountered in the process. Once landed on the high ground, the trail went easily and directly northward, through the dense woodland growth which, until many decades of Colonial advance had passed, covered the favorite hunting-ground of the Reckgawawanc, passing the future site of Jan Dykman's farmhouse at 153d street, and proceeding in nearly a direct line past the site of the home of Roger Morris, and his successor in ownership, the irrepressible Madame Jumel.

Probably a little side trail led to the west, at or near 158th street, connecting a small fishing-station, the site of which was marked by a deposit of shells on a mound on the south side of that street at Audubon lane.