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

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in 1918 by him and Amos Oneroad, and the results published by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.21

This village-site contained about sixty fire-pits and shell-pits, with several human burials; and in its vicinity extensive shellbeds, on the surface of which hundreds of discarded weapons, tools, and fragments were gathered by the late Claude L. Turner, indicate the planting-fields and fishing stations associated with the village life of the Siwanoy.

Returning to the upper Westchester or Shore path, which became the old Boston post-road, we find its starting point, now known as Boston avenue, in the village of Kingsbridge. Its course may be traced by reference to Map VII, A, C. This steep roadway connects at Giles street with Sedgwick avenue, where a little south of that intersection a small shell-pocket in the sidewalk gave an indication of a native rest-place alongside the old trail. Thence the path proceeded north on the latter avenue as far as the point where Giles street turns in from Fort Independence.