Several rock-shelters and camp-sites also have been traced along the riverside as far south as 158th street. 15. Muscoota (Map V). The modern Dyckman tract, comprising all the lowlands draining into Sherman basin, and the marsh meadows along the shore of Harlem river, which was referred to as "the Kil Muscoota." These lands extended as far north as Marble hill.

The name indicates a meadow or place INDIAN NOTES INDEX TO where rushes grow. Around the tract evidences of native occupancy were found, at 196th to 201st streets, 208th and 209th streets, 213th street, and at 219th street. In the interior of the area a ceremonial site at 212 th street and sundry places marked by food-pits have been discovered. 16.

Shorakapkok (Maps I, V). A name, fortunately preserved, applied to the locality under Inwood hill and to the western part of Spuyten Duyvil creek, on the bank of which, in the glen now called Cold Spring hollow, large deposits of debris, food-pits, and rock-shelters attest the long-continued native residence. The well-known Indian cave is one of the features of Shorakapkok.

(See pi. n.) 17. Nipnichsen (Map I). Berrians neck, Spuyten Duyvil hill.