This point of crossing was at the head of Roosevelt street, where the swampy ground was no wider than fifty or sixty feet, and the rivulet turned in its course between rising ground north and south only fifty paces apart.

At the south this high ground developed into the Catiemut hill, a little eminence occupying the area in the angle of Pearl street and Park Row, covering City Hall place. Another elevation, known much later as Potters hill, the site of the present Hall of Records, stood a little to the west. Between the two was the natural grade for

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a branch path connecting the village with the main path.

A branch pathway led eastward to a landing on East river opposite the head of the Indian trail on the Brooklyn side. A suitable landing beach existed at the foot of Dover street, near which the later ferry was established. It was necessarily approached on the south of the swamp, which spread between Park Row and the bank of the river. The most probable line of this path was along Pearl street about as far as Cherry street. The old shore-line ran inland on Dover street near Cherry street, and the outlet of the Old Wreck brook, as the watercourse draining the ponds became known, was near the junction of Roosevelt street with Cherry street. From the crossing of the brook at Roosevelt street the path continued in an easterly direction, following Chatham street to Chatham square. A small hillock then occupied the center of that space, and so the trail swerved to its north side and thus reached the junction of the Bowery and Division street. Here a branch path-