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Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis — Passage 5
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] INDIAN NOTES MANHATTAN 39 ward the short ferriage over to the lower end of Manhattan, while the traffic of northeastern Jersey concentrated, through Hoboken, at the Greenwich landing, and the Richmond paths apparently led from the Minisink path, the highway of the Lenni Lenape, in the direction of the Narrows toward Manhattan. The Manhattan pathways therefore be-came the chief line of intercommunication between these systems, and those natives that were seated on the island practically controlled the traffic in all directions. It is noticeable that large Indian settle-ments existed at those points on which traffic converged. This is evident at the upper end of Manhattan and Kings-