Over this important crossing all the native traffic necessarily passed between the Island of Manhattan and the outlying mainland north and east.
At its landing on the Fordham side, the path reached the base of the Keskeskick highlands, the north part of which was later known as Tetard's hill. Here it divided into two trails passing north and south. That part of the trail extending northward was the Hudson River path which developed into the present Albany post-road. This
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important path was the main line of communication between the Reckgawawanc and their relatives at Yonkers. It passed through the principal stations of neighboring chieftaincies, at Dobbs Ferry, Tarrytown, Ossining, Croton, and Peekskill, crossed the Highlands at Continental Village, and entered the lands of the Wappinger, extending to the country of their oppressors, the Mohawk.
In Kingsbridge village the old post-road existed until recent years, when it was covered by a deep fill to its present level, and is now known as Albany avenue. On the east side of the line of this roadway, at 234th street, W. L. Calver, with the writer, found a shell-pocket with pottery fragments, evidently marking the site of a small camp alongside the trail.
The path curved around Tetard hill as Albany avenue now runs, crossing near 238th street a small brook descending the hillside, and thence extending on a nearly straight course northward toward Van Cortlandt Park, where it found a practicable crossing over the Mosholu brook at 242d
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