INDIAN NOTES VII.— NATIVE PATHS IN THE BOROUGH OF QUEENS (Maps I, and VIII, B) THE Borough of Queens, which is a part of the one-time county of that name, was added to the Metropolis in 1898. It is a very spacious tract, embracing within its area the old townships of Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, and part of Hempstead, and the modern industrial district of Long Island City. It is divided from Kings county by a boundary-line drawn between the heads of Mespaetches or Newtown creek and the source of Spring creek, the Hohosboco of the natives.

The borough includes the entire tract which was occupied by the Rockaway chieftaincy extending from East river to Jamaica bay. Part of the Matinecock territory is also embraced within the northeastern bounds of the borough, in the township of 171 - INDIAN PATHS Flushing, and the districts of College Point, Whitestone, Bayside, and Little Neck. On the south it includes the easterly half of Jamaica bay as far west as the Raunt, and Rockaway beach from Rockaway point to Far Rockaway.