If this was the successor of a pathway to Hunts point, which seems the natural direction for such a trail to have taken, it would have followed the line of the Boston post-road to East 177th street, thence by a line which later became the old West Farms road, joining the Southern boulevard at Westchester avenue and following the line of the latter to Hunts Point road, which led directly to the Quinnahung station (7).

Another, starting from the Ranachqua locality, perhaps at the station 6, probably followed the course of the Westchester road which is now Westchester avenue, and may thus have formed a cross-connection between the landing-place and the stations in the eastern part of the Borough of the Bronx, though it would have involved the crossing of Bronx river by canoe at

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the present location of Westchester avenue, since there is no fordable place there.

The Hunts point or Quinnahung settlements (7) were probably fairly well-populated stations, judging by the large deposits of shells at several localities, such as around the original Richardson house site just west of Drake Park, in shell-pits on and around the hillock at Eastern boulevard and Preble street, and extensive shell-deposits around the shore-line of the extreme point, near the old Hunt mansion.

The objective of the lower Westchester path, the course of which through Fordham to Bronx Park has been described, was, as previously mentioned ] the Siwanoy settlements in the southeastern part of the Borough of the Bronx. This was the district which later became the township of Westchester, the refuge of those fleeing from religious persecution in New England. The native stations occupied several advantageous positions within Westchester township, and one of them, which was situated on the old Bear Swamp road (13),