_ a Oh £ 0< bo oh- S CO o found to fill the ancient bed of a brook long dried up, and to extend even beyond the shore-line into the waters of the creek.13 The main path, from Dyckman street eastward, probably left the line of Broadway near Academy street, and crossed the brook, the source of which was the spring at the native village, that ran through the head of a swampy tract later known as Pieter Tuynier's fall.

The old highroad, its successor, took this course and ran diagonally eastward to 209th street at Harlem river, where it reached a fishing camp-site, which was marked by considerable shell-deposits, and thence proceeded northward parallel with and near the bank of the river past the sites of the later Dyckman and Nagel homesteads, toward Marble hill. It may be assumed that branch trails led westward from this path to nearby places occupied by the natives for residence or for ceremonies, such as the site of the slaves' burying-ground at 212th street INDIAN PATHS and Tenth avenue, where a number of Indian shell-pits were explored by W. L.