It passed through the Valley grove, as the region about Midwood street was aptly titled, and thence almost due 147 INDIAN PATHS south through the woodlands of Flatbush. Where Cortelyou road now touches Flatbush avenue, the old Canarsie lane set off eastwardly, extending directly to the planting lands of the Canarsee chieftaincy, at the modern Canarsie, and the neck of land extending to Beach Park (pi. xix).

This old lane seems to have been a natural line of access to this important locality, though no record of its use as a trail is existent. On the west it joined Cortelyou road and "the little lane" which led toward New Utrecht. Canarsie lane formed the north boundary of the first white settlement in the locality known as Achterveldt, a triangular tract bounded on the southwest by the main Indian path, and on the southeast by the Flatlands Neck road, another native pathway.

Through the center of this tract the Paardegat inlet extended as far west as East 31st street at Foster avenue.