Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis — Passage 2
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] survey, and study. So it becomes an interesting and instruc-tive thought, as we travel along the re-graded thoroughfare, or race over its sur-face in a roaring train of cars, that beneath its hard, asphalted surface, below the re-mains of its macadamized predecessor, perhaps under the corduroy logs of an earlier cartway, there may yet be traces of the beaten surface of the narrow footway, hardened by the soft footfalls of the moc-casined feet of the Mahican during cen-turies of travel, long before civilization burst its bounds in overcrowded Europe and set forth to seize the home-land of the Indian. The origin of the path is lost in the haze of uncertainty regarding the anterior history of the American Indian. The length of time during which the region of the Greater City was occupied by the race is indicated AND MONOGRAPHS