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).
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found to fill the ancient bed of a brook long dried up, and to extend even beyond the shore-line into the waters of the creek.13
The main path, from Dyckman street eastward, probably left the line of Broadway near Academy street, and crossed the brook, the source of which was the spring at the native village, that ran through the head of a swampy tract later known as Pieter Tuynier's fall. The old highroad, its successor, took this course and ran diagonally eastward to 209th street at Harlem river, where it reached a fishing camp-site, which was marked by considerable shell-deposits, and thence proceeded northward parallel with and near the bank of the river past the sites of the later Dyckman and Nagel homesteads, toward Marble hill.