Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis
Hunter island (25) was a native resort of some importance, as upon or near it was a great rock known as Mishow, regarded by the natives as a feature of their assemblies and discussions. A careful examination of the shores of this island and of Twin islands fails to determine which of the numerous rocks that may be found along the tide-swept front would have been likely to be the rock in question. There INDIAN PATHS are some uninhabitable rocks several hundred feet away from the shore, which are marked on the city map as Michaux Rocks, which thus appear to have absorbed the aboriginal name.
Whatever may have been the position of this particularly venerated stone, it is evident from a number of indications that the two islands were much frequented by natives, whose arrowheads have been found by scores on the sandy beaches, their shell-pits in the interior, and their kitchen-middens in sheltered coves along the shore.