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.

Along the course of the brook deposits of shells may still be seen, and on the shore

INDIAN NOTES

BOLTON -- INDIAN PATHS

AN INDIAN PATH, THE TRAIL THROUGH SHORAKAPKOK, THE

INWOOD VILLAGE. MANHATTAN. (STATION 16, MAP V)

Photograph by W. L. Calver

UPPER MANHATTAN

of the little cove a mass of shells and carbonized material had accumulated to a depth of nearly five feet, in which Alanson Skinner and Amos Oneroad, exploring for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, found crude artifacts, indicative of very ancient use.13

This is probably the earliest occupied place in the Inwood district, which has proved rich in the remains of native occupancy. Indeed the numerous spots where such signs have come to light point to the use in one way or another of all parts of the favored valley, from the dense woodlands of the sheltered hillsides to the numerous fishing-places along the placid Muscoota river and around the shore-line of Shorakapkok.

The broad tract of meadow-land and marsh in the center of this vale, extending from the base of Fort George hill to the southerly part of Marble hill, was known to the natives as Muscoota (15), "a meadow or place of rushes." As in other situations, the name was applied also to the contiguous waters of Harlem river, bordering the tract