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Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis

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This is a reputed Indian resort in dense INDIAN NOTES INDEX TO woodlands, well suited to the purpose of a hiding place, and about midway between the Shore path and the Westchester-Eastchester path. 122. Little Neck, or Douglaston (Map I). A favorite locality for native occupancy, evidenced by abundant shell-deposits, and the signs of a village and burialground, probably of the Matinecock. 122a.

Pudding rock (Map VII, C). A glacial bowlder, stated to have been used by natives as a resort, situated at the Boston road, south of East 166th street, Borough of the Bronx (Historical Guide to the City of New York, City History Club, p. 212, 1913). It is not near any water supply, and is therefore unlikely to have been a permanent station.

(Inadvertently omitted from the map.) INDEX OF PROPER NAMES Academy street, 85 Achterveldt, 148 Acquacanonck, Acqueanounck, 34, 120, 122, 201, 231. See Hutchinson river Acqueegenom, 100, 104, 111/240 Adees point, 113 Ahasimus, 239. See Harsimus Albany avenue, 92 Albany crescent, 102 Albany Post-road, 19, 79, 91 Albany trail, 98 Amboy (N.