Bending northwest at 160th street, the path followed the line of the avenue to 168th street, there crossing, sometimes directly, sometimes circuitously, a marshy tract on the site of the present Mitchel Square. Rising in grade to its highest point, the path followed our present Broadway. It crossed the divide at 173d street, and on the line of old Depot lane, now 177th street, a bypath must have led to the fishing-station and canoe-landing on Fort Washington point (14), where a considerable deposit of blackened soil, shells, and occasional scraps of pottery indicate a somewhat extended use of the place by men and women of the local tribe, while the arrowpoints found by Alanson Skinner among the rocks are probably those lost in shooting the darting fish that swarmed the swirling tide around the famous headland (pi. i).

At 176th to 181st street the path bounded an Indian planting-field, known as "The Great Maize Land" to the early settlers, the only clearing in the wild woodlands, doubtless prepared and tended by those natives resident in Fort Washington Park.