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
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main College building, and the trail struck across the grounds of St John's College, on a line which may be that of the old rear driveway. Beyond the college it cut eastwardly through the site of Fordham hospital, and crossing the Southern boulevard, entered Bronx Park. Traversing the park, it reached Bronx river, where there is a practicable wading place about one hundred and fifty feet north of Pelham parkway. This, the Indian Acqueegenom (119), is shown in pi. ix. Thence the trail extended to the Siwanoy settlements east of the Aquehung or Bronx river, to which the lower part of the stream formed not only a boundary but a physical barrier. Its extension and branches are described later.
It would seem that some branch path must have extended toward native settlements in Ranachqua17 or Morrisania, the southern part of the present Borough of the Bronx. The known sites are not numerous, but the fertility of the soil and the attractive natural features of the territory, which were testified to by Jonas