Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis — Passage 9
[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] near 98th street. These flowed together in a level space, which lay between two ridges on the line of Park avenue, and as the lodges there commanded a full view of the waters of Hellgate bay, the village-site would agree with the description of Konaande Kongh as "the hill near which they fish with nets." This was the old haunt of the Reckgawa-wanc, to which they clung until 1669, when they abandoned their home-lands forever. The path entered Central Park at 88th street and extended northwesterly through the site of the Croton reservoir. It joined the Park drive just above the Transverse road, or 97th street, and followed it to its AND MONOGRAPHS 72 INDIAN PATHS junction with the circular drive near 104th street, where it struck across the park over to the head of the gully known as McGown's