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).

At 176th to 181st street the path bounded an Indian planting-field, known as "The Great Maize Land" to the early settlers, the only clearing in the wild woodlands, doubtless prepared and tended by those natives resident in Fort Washington Park. Between 179th and 180th streets the path swerved to the east to reach the head of the ravine through which it and its successor, the Albany post-road, now Broadway, made its way directly down between the hills

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of Fort Washington and Fort George, to the low-lying valley of Inwood.

At 195th street a brook, later known as "The Run," crossed the path from west to east, at the head of the swampy ground which extended in from Sherman creek (Map V). In the sloping ground north of the watercourse, which has been cultivated for many years as a truck garden, various objects of native handling have been turned up by the spade, but these are not sufficient to indicate its use for more than a campsite. The path passed on, as Broadway now does, around the western side of "The Knoll" to Dyckman street, which it crossed between the heads of two small watercourses running east and west, respectively, at that point. A branch path must certainly have turned westward along the margin of the latter brook, at the base of the high ground around which Riverside drive now bends, and led to the ancient station (100) on the bank of "Little Sand bay," snugly ensconced behind Tubby hook.