It was in fact one of the places where INDIAN NOTES < BOLTON - INDIAN PATHS IN THE GREAT METROPOLIS THE INDIAN VILLAGE-SITE AT GERRITSEN BASIN, FROM A SURVEY AND OBSERVATIONS BY D. B. AUSTIN.

THE CANARSEE 155 the important manufacture of wampum was carried on. The position of native resi- dence might be expected to have been on the northern part of the island, near Avenue U and the Grand esplanade, because that part was near a fresh-water supply, and had a good beach for use as a canoe landing, while the southern part was bordered by- marsh and had no stream nearby. From these observations it will be evi- dent that the native station at Flatlands occupied an advantageous and commanding position.

It grew up at the junction of four important paths. It might well have been a wayside stopping-place where all the native gossips exchanged information. It could hardly have escaped being a center of barter for goods in exchange for fish and mollusks.