Thence following hollow, struck the Rondout at Napanoch. that stream through Wawarsirig and Rochester, it passed over in Marbletown to the Esopus, and skirted the latter to its mouth at Saugerties. The other crossed the mountain range at

Minnisink, to the eastern valleys, and followed the Shawangunk, the Wallkill and the Rondout to the Hudson.

The first may

be distinguished as the Mamakating, and the second as the

Shawangunk trail.

From trail to trail the cross paths may yet

be traced, and in some places have been marked upon the mountain rocks by the passing footsteps of ages."

was on the Mamakating

trail, about twenty-three miles he that locates the Old fort, or that of south-west Kingston, the on 3ist of July, and designates its destroyed by Kregier

It

" on the south side of the

Kerhonkson, near the line between Rochester and Wawarsing, just north of what is called Shurker's hill, and about three miles from the mouth and at the

site as being

head of the Kerhonkson."

The New fort, or that destroyed

on the 4th of October, he says, " was in the town of Shawan gunk, on the east bank of the Shawangunk kil, and twentyHe adds " Whatever doubts eight miles from Kingston." there may be as to the Kerhonkson village, or the Old fort, there can be none a to that situated on the Shawangunk. :

From the first settlement of the country the place has been The New Fort. The village which was found aban