Such an important station as Castle point evidently required a pathway, which doubtless must have connected it with the Siwanoy village on the Bear Swamp road. The traffic between the two places could have passed most conveniently by way of the old Unionport road, which, after crossing Westchester avenue, followed the approximate line of Avenue C, or Castle Point road, which leads directly to the site of the one-time Screven residence that occupied the hillock on which the Indian place of refuge was seen as early as 1614.

INDIAN NOTES

THE BRONX

By the same connection, the only practicable route may be traced by which the village of Snakapins (8) could be reached on the modern Clasons point. An old lane which left the Unionport road and passed over the property of the New York Catholic Protectory, led nearly due south across Westchester avenue, to the neck, passing on dry ground through the narrow space between the heads of Pugsley and Barrett creeks, whose marshy areas barred access in any other direction.

Such a trail on Cornells neck would have been necessarily more or less crooked, as the neck is cut up by small brooks and swampy areas, with isolated rocky patches which stand up like islands in the surrounding sea of cattail rushes. The old "Middle path" down the neck was its probable course, as it led directly to the native village of Snakapins, which was situated on the west side of Soundview avenue, at its intersection by Leland avenue. This, which is the one local station of which the native name was preserved, was discovered by Alanson Skinner and explored