Calver discovered a fireplace, in the ashes of which there was standing upright a fine pottery vessel of Iroquois pattern, possibly neglected in a hurried abandonment of the place on the advent of some hostile party, by natives who never revisited the place to recover this domestic treasure. The path ran along Broadway close to this site, and then turned sharply to the east across the marsh-land at or near 231st street, where the bog was narrowest (see Map VI).

A causeway was later constructed at the same crossing by the settlers of Fordham. Over this important crossing all the native traffic necessarily passed between the Island of Manhattan and the outlying mainland north and east. At its landing on the Fordham side, the path reached the base of the Keskeskick highlands, the north part of which was later known as Tetard's hill.

Here it divided into two trails passing north and south. That part of the trail extending northward was the Hudson River path which developed into the present Albany post-road. This INDIAN PATHS important path was the main line of communication between the Reckgawawanc and their relatives at Yonkers.