Another station, whose existence is marked in our city's history by the black record of the indiscriminate slaughter of its occupants in 1643, was Aressick, or

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Paulus hook (114), now included in the modern Jersey City, probably situated at a point about a block south and west of Exchange place. It was thus directly across the river from Werpoes, and is likely to have had considerable communication, by canoe, with Manhattan.

It had nearby a neighboring community in the native village of Harsimus (115), situated in the cove about the present Henderson street and 5th street, in modern Hoboken.

At Castle point, the trading station of Hobokan Hackingh (116), was established a place of some importance, which by its position on the highest southerly ground along the river-front commanded the passage of trade to and from the Island of Manhattan.

By some route we may feel assured that these natives of Bergen neck, and others occupying North Bergen and the Palisade region, found their way around the Hackensack meadows to the trails from those mountain regions on which the traders from the interior tribes made their way

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with the products of the chase to the marketing place at Sapohanikan.

Direct progress toward the west from the stations on the bank of Hudson river along Bergen neck was barred to native travel by the extensive swamp-land that extended around the head of Newark bay for about sixteen miles inland to Hackensack.

It was, perhaps, a common custom to transport goods and travelers by canoe across the Hackensack, which could have been best accomplished at Kearney, but in the absence of the means of water ferriage the traveler was compelled to journey to some point farther inland, where a crossing by wading could be effected.