It may be noted that it is situated on a prominent tongue of land, diverting the course of the river some distance to the east. The ground north of the place selected for the crossing which now forms part of Woodlawn cemetery, is at a higher grade and would have made it inconvenient to pass in that direction. The river farther south is tortuous, and the banks appear to have been swampy. The position of the crossing was thus doubtless designed to take advantage of the best conditions for the convenience of the traveler.

From the wading place at Williamsbridge the Shore path rose up the hillside to the line of the present White Plains road, and turning sharply to the north followed its course, which may still be

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traced in the irregular form of part of the west side of the avenue, up to 217th street. Thence it took the present straight course of the highroad over level land through Wakefield as far as East 228th street where it branched off toward the northeast, crossing five blocks diagonally to East 233d street, where it can be found again today as Bussing avenue. On this avenue it followed an irregular course to the boundary-line of the City of Mount Vernon, at the intersection of South Twelfth avenue and South Seventh street in that city. Thence it ran nearly due east, only two hundred to four hundred feet north of the New York City boundary, directly to the native station at old Eastchester village (21). The old road may still be traced by the ancient bowlder fences and old trees growing alongside as it falls sharply downgrade toward Hutchinson river. It has recently been cut down between high banks at the Kingsbridge Road station on the Boston and Westchester Railway, the process exposing a shell-bed which doubtless indicates part of the site of the Siwanoy station.