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Several sites around this favored locality are marked by native debris: (1) Around the site of the one-time house of the Richardson family, particularly about the spring nearby, near the old Hunt burial-ground. (2) On the Dickey estate on the Hunts Point road at Randall avenue. (3) On a mound surrounded by marsh-lands on the line of Eastern boulevard, if extended: (4) At the extremity of the point, in front of the site of the one-time Hunt mansion. 8.

Snakapins (Map VII, D). A native village, the name of which was recorded, of extensive character, situated on a tract of sloping ground on the west side of the present Soundview avenue, where it is intersected by Leland avenue. The site was covered by about sixty lodges.

In the vicinity, south of the village, there was probably an extensive plantingground. Fishing stations were situated along the shore, and at Clasons point. The site was explored by Alanson Skinner for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, in 1918.

See Contributions from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, vol. v, no. 4, part n, New York, 1919. 9. Castle point or Castle hill (Map VII, INDIAN NOTES INDEX TO D).