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

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142 INDIAN PATHS laid out somewhat to the west of the course of the old path. It diverged east of the avenue at Hamon place, crossing Atlantic avenue at Fort Greene place. At this point two important branches set off west and east. The former was that which afterward became the Gowanus road, leading to the district bordering on Gowanus bay, where native settlements existed. One of these was the site of the De Hart Bergen dwelling near Third avenue at 37th street (110). At this early settlement natives were still making their home as late as 1679, when Sluyter and Dankers, the Labadist monks, enjoyed the hospitality of the homestead, and noted in their diary the abundance and enormous size

of the oysters gathered in the vicinity. Another nearby station was evidenced by the discovery by Adam Dove of a number of artifacts in the cut for the Shore Line railroad at 37th street between Sixth and Seventh avenues (109). Other traces were found in Sunset Park near the lake. There was a native path somewhat farther southeast, paralleling the Gowanus