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

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road, the course of which was on the lines of Sixth and Seventh avenues. It is shown in part on a survey of the properties along Gowanus bay, made in the year 1696 by Augustus Graham, and reproduced by Stiles. 27 The portion of this path thus recorded appears to have run in the direction best suited to travel from Fort Hamilton to old Brooklyn, and may very probably have been an extension of the old trail, which became the King's highway, rejoining the latter about the line of Fifth avenue in Bay Ridge. This old path passes very near the place at 37th street where Indian objects were found, as above mentioned, and its extension across the center of Greenwood cemetery is directly toward the main line of trail on Flatbush avenue at or near Battle pass in Prospect Park (pi. xviii). It is the trail mentioned in a declaration made 4 April, 1677, by two natives, "Zemo Kamingh otherwise known in his walks (or travels) as Kaus Hansen," and "Kenrom, both Indians," who recorded the bounds of the land of Paulus Vanderbeeck to be "'a certain tree or stump on the Long Hill on the one side, and on the