Its course seems to coincide with that of the present Pelham and East Pelham road, now forming an extension of the Shore driveway.22 Southward from the Split Rock road the other branch trail must have led across the head of Bartow creek to the line of the City Island road, and following that course would cross the swamp at Glovers rock, where later the New England men held in check the invading army of Great Britain.

Thence it surely led to that point of land extending into Pelham bay (23), whereon extensive beds of shell and carbonized materi- INDIAN PATHS als were discovered and explored by Mr M. R. Harrington (pi. xvi).

He disinterred several human burials, which may, as alleged by the local historian, the Rev. Robert Bolton, have included those of the very Siwanoy chieftains who, under the Great Tree, sold their heritage to the specious Englishmen, bartering away for small consideration the broad acres of Pelham and Rochelle with their extensive shore-line, abundant fisheries, virgin forest, and well-watered uplands. INDIAN NOTES Q. - g £ > >> in lu -a 2 ■ 8 co S & <^ j 1?