Native trails therefore must have made their way into these localities from the north, and one such trail probably extended to a landing place on the shore of Bronx INDIAN PATHS kill, opposite Harlem, from which connection could be made by canoe with the head of the Indian trail on Manhattan island, which has been described in Section III. In the vicinity of this probable landing place, traces of native occupancy were found in shell-pits and fire-pits (6) which were opened by W.

L. Calver and the writer around the knoll on which the mansion of Gouverneur Morris stood at 132d street, near Cypress avenue, where a fine spring of water was doubtless an attractive feature of the station. Native interments were also disturbed there, and shell-beds existed in the vicinity.

The settlement and cultivated land of Jonas Bronck seems to have been made in that part of the Ranachqua tract directly opposite Harlem, west of the marshes and bogs along Mill brook, as is indicated in the crude map accompanying the Patent of 1676.