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.

It may be assumed that branch trails led westward from this path to nearby places occupied by the natives for residence or for ceremonies, such as the site of the slaves' burying-ground at 212th street

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and Tenth avenue, where a number of Indian shell-pits were explored by W. L. Calver and Dr Edward Hagaman Hall, in which were found pottery, and dog, turtle, and snake skeletons; or on Isham street, Cooper street, and 207th street, where human and dog burials, shell-pockets, and fire-pits have been discovered by Mr Calver and his companions (pi. iv, v, and fig. 1).

Between the high ground of the Dyckman estate at 218th street and the Marble hill at 225th street, the broad water of the United States Ship Canal now sweeps, bordered on the north side by the New York Central railroad. This was in ancient times a marshy gully, in which two brooks ran west and east, the latter easily crossed by the path about a hundred feet west of the present Broadway bridge.