Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis — Passage 7
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] From Astor place we now follow the path INDIAN NOTES MANHATTAN 61 on its way northward as it was developed into the earliest roadway through the island, the old road which was existing when a cartway was ordered to be opened in 1670 to connect New Amsterdam with the town-ship of New Haerlem. There is no histori-cal record of this old road having been an Indian path, but there can be little doubt that this was the case, as it led to the junc-tion of two known native paths at McGown's pass, and its crooked course was evidently directed by ancient physical conditions. The middle part of the Island of Man-hattan does not seem to have been oc-cupied to any great extent by the natives, a condition which may be explained by the