The lower path, which led direct to Westchester and the native stations in the southeastern part of the Bronx, took a southerly route by way of Bailey avenue, around the bend of Spuyten Duyvil creek, toward the line of the old Kingsbridge road, which led to the village of Fordham, turning east at the Farmers' bridge opposite Muscoota or 225th street, Manhattan.

This part of Westchester path, which will be first described, and is shown on Map VII, C, crossed the edge of some marshy ground near the bridge to Manhattan, where there is a patch of cultivable ground richly strewn with oyster-shells, indicating a small station and probably a plantingfield.

Crossing Heath avenue, the Lower path,

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as we shall describe it, steeply ascended the hill to Sedgwick avenue, and through the wooded upland went due eastward as Kingsbridge road now runs, past the site of the old Dutch Reformed church near the head of University avenue, and the Eighth Regiment armory on Jerome avenue, and bending irregularly but nearly within the lines of the present Kingsbridge road, it ascended the high ground and reached and crossed the present Concourse. Here it turned to the south around the present Poe Park, where the old Williamsbridge road, which is now part of Valentine avenue, later joined its route. It ran past the original site of Edgar Allan Poe's little home, and in front of the site of the old Valentine-Briggs farmhouse which has been very recently removed, on its western side, and so bending sharply east, it descended through the village of Fordham to Mill brook, at the head of Third avenue. JMiH brook was crossed at some point north of Pelham avenue, probably at a shallow place where the brook widened out, which seems to have been due west of the