There two known Indian trails diverged, one leading into the narrow valley of the Ramapo river through the heart of the mountains to the Highlands, and the other turning eastwardly along Mahwah creek directly to Haverstraw.

Through these mountain trails there doubtless flowed a great part of the traffic that brought the pelts and game of the wild forests to Manhattan, and carried back again over their steep and tortuous courses the coveted beads of wampum for which they had been exchanged.

The Minisink path was an important native highway which connected the bay of New York and the sea coast with the mountain regions of upper New Jersey in which the Lenni Lenape made their home. This great pathway was so well known a

INDIAN NOTES

BOLTON-- INDIAN PATHS IN THE GREAT METROPOLIS

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MAP XI

, embracing the native sales of territory conof the Minisink path. Drawn probably about Courtesy of the New York Historical Society.)

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feature of east New Jersey that it appears prominently in ancient maps, such as that reproduced as Map X, on which its entire course is marked from Navasink to Minisink.