On the west side of the range of hills the old Richmond turnpike passes through native sites from New Brighton and Silver Lake to Linoleum ville, and on the north shore several important settlements were doubtless connected by some path that paralleled the Kill van Kull between West New Brighton and Howlands hook. This trail would probably have followed the shore-line as closely as the present shoreroad, as far as Mariners Harbor, where it would have terminated at the Bowmans Brook site, with a branch path to the south, extending past Arlington station, to Old Place and Bloomfield.

The native settlements on Staten Island were both ancient and extensive. They are described by Skinner,33 who explored the majority of the sites, and to whom we are indebted for most of our available information. One of several stations at West New Brighton was situated on the shore at Peltons cove, or Upper cove (72), on the line of the present Shore road.