It doubtless connected with a wading place used by those natives who visited or lived on Hunter island (25) , and with those who were resident at a station (24) at Roosevelts brook, which runs into the Sound just below the boundary of the city and Pelham Manor, both of which localities bear abundant evidences of native occupancy.

Hunter island (25) was a native resort of some importance, as upon or near it was a great rock known as Mishow, regarded by the natives as a feature of their assemblies and discussions. A careful examination of the shores of this island and of Twin islands fails to determine which of the numerous rocks that may be found along the tide-swept front would have been likely to be the rock in question. There

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are some uninhabitable rocks several hundred feet away from the shore, which are marked on the city map as Michaux Rocks, which thus appear to have absorbed the aboriginal name. Whatever may have been the position of this particularly venerated stone, it is evident from a number of indications that the two islands were much frequented by natives, whose arrowheads have been found by scores on the sandy beaches, their shell-pits in the interior, and their kitchen-middens in sheltered coves along the shore.

The brook now known as Roosevelts (24) , a name dating back to the acquisition of property in that vicinity by that family early in the nineteenth century, may have been the Maninketsuck which Tooker says was a "strong flowing brook" in Pelham. This place is favorably situated, sheltered and provided with good dririking water, and its further exploration by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, may, it is hoped, bring to light further evidences of the considerable native popu-