It ran as far east of Flatbush avenue as the intersection of Prospect and Vanderbilt avenues, and passed* east of the Plaza, across Eastern Parkway, reaching a lofty place on the site of Prospect reservoir. This place was probably selected as a lookout. Thence the trail turned across Institute Park into Prospect Park, through the famous Battle pass of the Revolution, west of the present avenue, emerging from the park at Malbone street, whence it followed the present avenue

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is illustrated in Map IX. Native occupancy extended over a considerable space on the western side of the basin. The water supply was provided by a good spring which is still running, and a broad and very fertile farm land extends tract of west of the site of the village which may be identified as the Indian Shanscomacocke. Mashanscomacocke, "a much enclosed place," was the name of a tract in the vicinity of Flatlands, which was sold in 1664 by natives (pi. xxii). It included features that identify it as the Gerritsen Basin station. "Upland and marshes, anyway belonging thereto, as the Strawn [Strome] Beach or Beaches, as namely that running out more westerly, with the Island adjoining, and is at the same time by the ocean sea wholly inclosed, called hoopaninak and Shanscomacocke, and Macutteris." The situation of the tracts included in the sale are evidently in the vicinity of the Strome beach.