The most definite of these early discoveries is a site (66) which was exposed in the year 1826, on an eminence in the Fourth ward, which Furman precisely locates at Bridge street between Front and York streets, where, on a grass-grown hill surmounted by three conspicuous buttonwood trees, there were found burnt stones doubtless forming part of the fireplaces of native lodges. Below the sod an extensive deposit was uncovered, consisting of ashes, shells, and carbonized material, with which were INDIAN PATHS mingled such objects as coarse pottery and arrowheads.

Furman further notes that clay tobacco-pipes were discovered on this site, which indicate the occupancy of the place after white men had come in contact with the Indians. This village was not far from a water-supply in a brook rising nearby and entering Wallabout bay. It was doubtless situated on the southern side of the hill, which is shown on the Ratzer survey (see Map VIII, A) as situated between two other eminences upon the neck of land between the approach to the Brooklyn bridge and the Navy Yard.