On the native path, even then an ancient thoroughfare, the rising sun of our early history sees the wondering Manhattan crowding down from the upland regions to the Kapsee rocks, to gaze at the sails of the ship of Verrazano through the vista of the Narrows, and a generation later sees their successors filing down the trail to the place of the fateful bargain when the Manhattan path became a white man's highway. The shadows of history lengthen over Sachkerah, the old Shore pathway,

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as the Siwanoy brave pauses at the head of the steep hill leading down to the marshy Acquacanonck to view the approach from the east, of the little band of refugees, leaders of the English incursion which, in spite of all the efforts of the native race, was to displace him as well as the Dutch invader, and to turn the village homes that lay scattered along the path behind him, into the sites of towering tenements. The path itself, so familiar in its every turn to his quick vision, was destined thereby to become the broad King's Highway on which his silent footfall was forever replaced by the traffic of leathern heels and iron wheels, and over whose widened surface, where once the meeting Reckgawawanc and Siwanoy crowded each other in friendly passage, the rushing tide of rubber-tired cars shall swing past one another in endless procession.

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BOLTON - INDIAN PATHS IN THE GREAT METROPOLIS

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LOWER MANHATTAN IN A30RIGINAL TIMES.