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,
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though it could not have been upon, the point. The latter was wholly unsuited for residence; for it was little more than a mound of sand, rising above the marshland, overflowed by high tides and doubtless swarming with muskrats and crabs, and, moreover, without shelter from every wind that' blew. But on the higher ground to the southwest there was such shelter from the wintry winds, and also a good source of water-supply from two springs rising near 98th street. These flowed together in a level space, which lay between two ridges on the line of Park avenue, and as the lodges there commanded a full view of the waters of Hellgate bay, the village-site would agree with the description of Konaande Kongh as "the hill near which they fish with nets." This was the old haunt of the Reckgawawanc, to which they clung until 1669, when they abandoned their home-lands forever. The path entered Central Park at 88th street and extended northwesterly through the site of the Croton reservoir. It joined the Park drive just above the Transverse road, or 97th street, and followed it to its