This branchtrail made a sharp turn, as previously mentioned, to avoid some obstruction, perhaps the native planting-ground at Pacific street, and then followed the line of Court street directly to Degraw street, whence another old lane, which was existing in the eighteenth century, led southwesterly through the native corn-fields as described by old Maritie Bevors, to Red hook.

Near the intersection of Nevins street with Fulton street the main pathway has now become Flatbush avenue, as it turned southward (pi. xvii). On its way over the range of hills on which Prospect park is situated, the present Flatbush avenue is

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laid out somewhat to the west of the course of the old path. It diverged east of the avenue at Hamon place, crossing Atlantic avenue at Fort Greene place. At this point two important branches set off west and east. The former was that which afterward became the Gowanus road, leading to the district bordering on Gowanus bay, where native settlements existed. One of these was the site of the De Hart Bergen dwelling near Third avenue at 37th street (110). At this early settlement natives were still making their home as late as 1679, when Sluyter and Dankers, the Labadist monks, enjoyed the hospitality of the homestead, and noted in their diary the abundance and enormous size of the oysters gathered in the vicinity. Another nearby station was evidenced by the discovery by Adam Dove of a number of artifacts in the cut for the Shore Line railroad at 37th street between Sixth and Seventh avenues (109). Other traces were found in Sunset Park near the lake. There was a native path somewhat farther southeast, paralleling the Gowanus