Access to this favored village-site was possible from two directions. It has been noted that the line of lower Broadway, which below Park Row is reasonably assumed to have been the successor of a native path, is directed toward the rear of the village at Duane street. By such a route the inhabitants could have made their way directly to the extreme end of their island home.

A path undoubtedly led, by the easiest grade and as directly as possible, to East

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river, where the traffic from Long Island found a landing near the junction of Dover and Cherry streets. This path probably joined the main pathway near the Municipal Building, and by following the latter northward, the village folk could readily reach their planting-grounds along the Bowery.

Werpoes was occupied for no long period of time after the advent of Hudson. If, as would seem most likely, its occupants were those with whom Minuit made his bargain in 1622, supposedly for the entire island, the sale of their home-site resulted in their entire evacuation of the place after that event. Doubtless these natives were those Manhattan Indians who were afterward found to be settled at Nayack, or Fort Hamilton (68), where they resided for twenty-five years, when they consented again to remove and transferred their home to Staten Island and in part to the Hackensack region. And it is significant that in Brooklyn another locality was found to bear the same native name of Werpos (67), to which perhaps some of