"The underwritten Indians .have sold the Point named Rechewanis, bounded between two creeks and hills, and behind a stream [fonteyn] which runs to Montagne's Flat."10

This exactly and completely describes the neck of low, sandy marsh-land east from the high ground in Central Park (103rd-107th streets), to Hellgate bay or East river, and bounded on its north side by Harlem creek (the fonteyn referred to), taking in Montagne's tract to Manhattanville, and on its south side by a smaller and unnamed creek bordering the high

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ground between Madison and Third avenues from 101st street southward.

The deed proceeds with the description of the property ". . . with the Meadows (Valeyen) from the bend of the Hellegat to Konaande Kongh."

The meadows thus described lay south of the bounds of the point previously described, and extended along the shore of the bay of Hellgate, from 92d to 100th streets, between First and Second avenues. The marshy area was much cut up by stream and inlets, and it extended back to the high ground on the west, previously referred to, which roughly followed a line north and south.

This is evidently the situation of Konaande Kongh, a particular title which is so precise that it could scarcely have been applied to a mere line of uplands, which in the other part of the deed are referred to merely as "hills" {her gen). The topography is suited to the position of the station, in which Reckgawack and his circle of natives must have made their headquarters, on the high ground in the vicinity of,