Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
Calver and Dr Edward Hagaman Hall, in which were found pottery, and dog, turtle, and snake skeletons; or on Isham street, Cooper street, and 207th street, where human and dog burials, shell-pockets, and fire-pits have been discovered by Mr Calver and his companions (pi. iv, v, and fig. 1). Between the high ground of the Dyckman estate at 218th street and the Marble hill at 225th street, the broad water of the United States Ship Canal now sweeps, bordered on the north side by the New York Central railroad.
This was in ancient times a marshy gully, in which two brooks ran west and east, the latter easily crossed by the path about a hundred feet west of the present Broadway bridge. The trail then curved around the eastern side of Saperewack, our Marble hill, past the later site of the Hyatt tavern at 225th street, and at a level considerably below the line of Broadway it made for the Wading place, the ultimate object of its entire course.
INDIAN NOTES BOLTON — INDIAN PATHS INDIAN WOMAN AND CHILD IN A GRAVE AT SHORAKAPKOK. (STATION 16, MAP V) An arrowpoint was found in one of the woman's ribs, indicating a violent death. Photograph by W. L.