The sheltered side of Inwood hill was a most desirable place for native residence, and extensive debris discovered on all favorable sites testifies to their long-continued occupancy. The mouth of Spuyten Duyvil creek bounds the hill on the north and partly on the east, and this portion of the waterway was included in the name applied by the natives to the locality, Shorakapkok, which Mr Harrington suggests may be from shaphakeyeu-aki, referring to a "wet-ground place ."

The principal station appears to have been a village (15) situated at the base of the east side of Inwood hill, along the present Seaman avenue, where a number of the native dead were also interred. This must have been reached by a bypath.

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INDIAN PATHS

probably extending from the main path at Dyckman street along the line of the old Bolton road and via Prescott avenue to the village-site, which was occupied from near the Bolton road, as far north as 207th street, with numerous shell-pits and, around a spring at 204th street, with extensive beds of debris.

We may be sure that a village path passed on northward to the planting-ground situated on the Isham estate, north of 207th street and west of Seaman avenue. Thence it led by the same route as the present cartway (pi. n) through the woodlands to that shadowy glen under the cliffs of Inwood hill, where the Indian cave still exists, and where the spouting spring still pours out its pellucid stream for the benefit of the visitor to the fascinating Shorakapkok, (pi. in), the present Cold Spring Hollow (16).