Southward from the Split Rock road the other branch trail must have led across the head of Bartow creek to the line of the City Island road, and following that course would cross the swamp at Glovers rock, where later the New England men held in check the invading army of Great Britain. Thence it surely led to that point of land extending into Pelham bay (23) , whereon extensive beds of shell and carbonized materi-

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als were discovered and explored by Mr M. R. Harrington (pi. xvi). He disinterred several human burials, which may, as alleged by the local historian, the Rev. Robert Bolton, have included those of the very Siwanoy chieftains who, under the Great Tree, sold their heritage to the specious Englishmen, bartering away for small consideration the broad acres of Pelham and Rochelle with their extensive shore-line, abundant fisheries, virgin forest, and well-watered uplands.

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HE Borough of Brooklyn covers an area which afforded considerable advantages for Indian residence. Its fishing and hunting facilities must have been superior and were capable of supporting a numerous population. The extensive shell-beds which are found at certain parts of the shore-line indicate a long period of settlement, and it is considered by Wood that the course of native migration had proceeded from the western end of Long Island to the eastern part. The tract composing the present borough, on the arrival of the white settlers was found to be largely a timbered district, around the margin of which the native stations were planted.