The position of that settlement is indicated by the discovery from time to time of native artifacts upon the Maspeth hills The situation also appears to have been desirable for native residence, as the creek provided fresh water at its source, and the elevation afforded a wide view over surrounding country. A village-site might have been looked for in the vicinity of Borden avenue and Willow avenue. Neighboring territory lying south and east of this station was desirably sloping and well-drained land upon which the natives doubtless had their cultivated clearings.
Northwest of Mispat, over the promontory now forming the growing Long Island
INDIAN NOTES
BOROUGH OF QUEENS
City and its environs to Corona, a great tract of forest land extended to Flushing bay. This was known to the natives as Wandowenock, which Armbruster defines as "the fine land between the long streams" of East river and Flushing bay.
The only known station within this broad region is at Ravenswood Park (111), on the bank of the east channel of East river, where a shellheap indicates native residence, and some native objects were discovered by W. L. Calver.
It is not possible to suggest any particular line of trail connecting this place with Mispat. The path, if such there was, wound its way through the timber, which in later years Was all cut off, through the narrow neck of dry land between the heads of the Sunwick and Canapaukah creeks, near the present entrance to the approach of the Queensboro bridge.