It turned eastward at this crossing, and cut across the present lots north of Waverly place, passing there between two hillocks, one of which was known as the Sandberg, or Sand hill, and that on the south by a native name, which Schoolcraft gives as Ispetong, probably Aspetong, referring to an elevated place. 6 The line of Astor place is doubtless the result of the junction of the two paths at this point. 7 It is quite likely that another branch pathway extended farther eastward, which Stuyvesant later used as the means of access to his bouwery, on the line of Stuyvesant street, by which the head of the narrow creek that set in from East river (as far as First avenue at East 12th street) was reached, affording a short cut by canoe to the mouth of Newtown inlet directly across East river. From Astor place we now follow the path

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which we thus regard as the successor of the original trail, was by way of Fourth avenue from Astor place as far as 17th street, whence, skirting marsh-lands on the

west side, it ran to 23d street at Fifth

avenue. Here it turned sharply to the east, passing diagonally across Madison Square to 26th street at Madison avenue, the reason for this divergence being a convenient crossing over the head of a brook between two areas of marshy land at that point (see Map II). From this crossing it continued eastwardly over Madison avenue at 26th street, and thence diagonally toFourth avenue at 28th street. Its east side touched Lexington avenue at 30th street, where it turned north and ran parallel with Lexington avenue through the lots on its west side, It then passed easterly across Lexington avenue between 37th and 39th streets, and diagonally east over to Third avenue at 44th street.