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.

The name of the "creek, called Sunwick," means "a stone house," according to Tooker, and is another illustration of the Indian practice of applying to contiguous waters the designation of abutting territory.

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The name is connected with the tract on the north side of the creek, known to the natives as Sint Sinck, "a stony place," which in 1664 was sold to the Colonists by Shawestcout and Erramorhas.

It would seem natural for the neck of land which these creeks enclosed, to afford shelter to the aborigines, especially as the waters between the Hunters Point shore and that of Minnahanonck, or Blackwells island, must have afforded good fishing, and the shallows of Mespaetches should have been the nursery of countless oysters.

Flushing bay would appear to have been a very favorable place for native occupancy. North beach on Fishs point, the extremity of the promontory, is opposite Rikers island, beyond which a moderate stretch of still water separated it from Quinnahung and Snakapins, native settlements in the south part of the Bronx.