The name which was thus applied to the creek in the conveyance above mentioned, was probably that of the sea-shore path which followed its course, as pointed out by Tooker,32 corresponding as it does to the Delaware words shajahik, "seashore," and aney, "a path." Such a pathway, if extended through the Mispat village as it might have been, on the line of Trimble avenue, would have been an important means of access to the still waters of the Sound, from the regions around the bay of New York, avoiding INDIAN PATHS travel by canoe through the treacherous currents of Hell Gate.

The natural line of communication between these places and the mainland north and west, was the Rockaway trail, which ran from the Brooklyn path along the base of the hilly ground known as the Green hills that form the central backbone of the island from Fort Hamilton to. North Hempstead. This path followed the line of the old Bedford and Jamaica highway, which the present Atlantic avenue and Jamaica avenue succeed. The path was expanded into a King's highway in 1704, and for many years bore that name.