Jenkins says, "Before the days of theOestdorp (Westchester) settlers it was a trail or path used by the Siwanoy." 18 It passed along the meadowlands of Westchester creek, starting from Main street at Silver street in the village of Westchester, and it followed higher ground near the edge of the marshes of the Acqueanounck until it crossed Pelham Parkway at the site of the old Ferris mansion, opposite which is the modern Pelham Heath inn. Thence passing straight north by west to a junction with the old Corsa lane, which runs through the tract now known as Pelham-Bay-View Park, it led northwest to the present Boston post-road (of 1798), where it turned northeastward (pi. xrv) The old roadway was .

known as the Eastchester road before that date, and led only to that village. At the Old Point Comfort tavern the newer road diverges east to the bridge over the creek, but the old pathway necessarily kept on the western side, and so passing

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V.--INDIAN PATHS IN KINGS COUNTY (Maps VIII, A, B, C, D) HE Borough of Brooklyn covers an area which afforded considerable advantages for Indian residence. Its fishing and hunting facilities must have been superior and were capable of supporting a numerous population. The extensive shell-beds which are found at certain parts of the shore-line indicate a long period of settlement,and it is considered by Wood that the course of native migration had proceeded from the western end of Long Island to the eastern part. The tract composing the present borough, on the arrival of the white settlers was found to be largely a timbered district, around the margin of which the native stations were planted. The timber, however, was scant in quantity, as a result of the native practice