all illustrating the strategic value of the place as that best suited to the scaling of the hill, and the seasonal difficulties which were encountered in the process.

Once landed on the high ground, the trail went easily and directly northward, through the dense woodland growth which, until many decades of Colonial advance had passed, covered the favorite hunting-ground of the Reckgawawanc, passing the future site of Jan Dykman's farmhouse at 153d street, and proceeding in nearly a direct line past the site of the home of Roger Morris, and his successor in ownership, the irrepressible Madame Jumel.

Probably a little side trail led to the west, at or near 158th street, connecting a small fishing-station, the site of which was marked by a deposit of shells on a mound on the south side of that street at Audubon lane.

Bending northwest at 160th street, the path followed the line of the avenue to 168th street, there crossing, sometimes directly, sometimes circuitously, a marshy tract on the site of the present Mitchel Square. Rising in grade to its highest

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point, the path followed our present Broadway. It crossed the divide at 173d street, and on the line of old Depot lane, now 177th street, a bypath must have led to the fishing-station and canoe-landing on Fort Washington point (14), where a considerable deposit of blackened soil, shells, and occasional scraps of pottery indicate a somewhat extended use of the place by men and women of the local tribe, while the arrowpoints found by Alanson Skinner among the rocks are probably those lost in shooting the darting fish that swarmed the swirling tide around the famous headland (pi. i).