Some native objects,

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which include grooved axes, indicate native occupancy of this favorable place. Its aboriginal name denotes "a fine water-place" (Tooker, Indian Place Names). Armbruster says there are immense shell-beds on this island. D. B. Austin states that these beds cover the area of the center of the island, and that they were probably debris from the manufacture of wampum. 53. Flushing (Map I) Site of a large village .

of the Matinecock chieftaincy. Armbruster (Hist. L. I., its Early Days, etc., 1914) says eleven native burials were disturbed within the area of the Linnasan gardens in 1841, and in 1880 a burying ground, on which were stone artifacts, was disturbed on the Thomas P. Duryea farm, a mile from Flushing. 54. Hog island (Map I), situated in Brosewere bay, south of Hewlett. A station of the Rockaway chieftaincy, probably an appendage of the large village at Hewlett (55). 55. Hewlett (Map I). About two miles beyond the boundary of Queens county, south of Valley Stream, was a native station of considerable extent. At this site many objects were discovered by George H. Pepper in an exploration conducted for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. 58. Cow bay (Map I). Site of a Matinecock village. This was explored in 1900 by M. R. Harrington, who found great

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230 INDIAN PATHS quantities of material in shell-pits, also many burials. The greater part of these objects is in the American Museum of Natural History, and one fine pointedbottom jar is in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. 65. Mespaetches (Map VIII, B). The modern Maspeth. The name is applied to Newtown creek and the contiguous swampy area, and probably to the place of residence of some natives known as the Maspeth tribe.