Such an important station as Castle point evidently required a pathway, which doubt- less must have connected it with the Siwa- noy village on the Bear Swamp road. The traffic between the two places could have passed most conveniently by way of the old Unionport road, which, after crossing Westchester avenue, followed the approxi- mate line of Avenue C, or Castle Point road, which leads directly to the site of the one-time Screven residence that occu- pied the hillock on which the Indian place of refuge was seen as early as 1614.

INDIAN NOTES THE BRONX 115 By the same connection, the only prac- ticable route may be traced by which the village of Snakapins (8) could be reached on the modern Clasons point. An old lane which left the Unionport road and passed over the property of the New York Catholic Protectory, led nearly due south across Westchester avenue, to the neck, passing on dry ground through the narrow space between the heads of Pugsley and Barrett creeks, whose marshy areas barred access in any other direction.