This winding way was a very probable connection between the Maspeth station and the Rockaway path, with which it united at Euclid avenue in East New York.

The Rockaway path crossed the boundary of the Borough of Queens, as does its successor Jamaica avenue, at Elderts lane, and passed thence almost due east toward Jamaica (101), skirting the south side of the Green hills through the Woodhaven and Richmond Hill districts, and entering Jamaica at Fulton street, where it joined another known trail that led north to Flushing.

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Evidently proceeding farther east, as Fulton avenue now runs through Woodhull and Ho]Jis, to the present district called Queens, the trail divided there, one branch passing due east to Hempstead, the other in a northeasterly direction to Jericho. These routes were later known respectively as the South Country road or the South Post-road, and the Middle Post-road or Jericho road. It would seem probable that the Hewlett and the Near Rockaway stations would have been connected with Hempstead by some branch trail proceeding directly south from the Southern post-road at Hempstead, possibly along che Valley Stream road.

The main path to those native settlements was doubtless by the route of the old highway from Jamaica which led direct to Rockaway neck, and was practically an extension of the Flushing road. This old road, which may well have been an ancient path, passed over the meadows south of Jamaica, crossing the creek known to the natives as Skupash, the source of which was at Beaver pond in the old town, and thence