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.

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Here it diverged sharply to the east, passing through the northern part of the present Jerome reservoir, and it crossed the line of the old Croton aqueduct atVanCortlandt avenue, following the course of the latter to Jerome avenue. These parts of the path are now, of course, lost in the reservoir. Making a bend like a flattened S, and crossing the Concourse, it turned around the northern side of the hill on which in the Revolution the Negro Fort was constructed, and, descending to the Mosholu parkway, it went through Mill brook close to its source in a little pond situated near Jerome avenue. Thence curving northeastward, as Van Cortlandt avenue now runs, it passed the site of the old Varian homestead, which is still standing at Rochambeau street (pi. xh), and then continued diagonally across the site of the present Williamsbridge reservoir, in a northeasterly direction, emerging therefrom at the point where the old Boston post-road used to meet the old Gun Hill road.