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Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis — Passage 29

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[Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922)] AND MONOGRAPHS 226 INDIAN PATHS the main path to the north and east countries. 19. Mosholu or Keskeskick (Maps VII, A, C). An important village-site on the west bank of" Mosholu brook, near the Van Cortlandt mansion in Van Cort-landt park. The title Keskeskick ap-plied to the range of hills forming part of Kingsbridge, Fordham, and Univer-sity Heights, probably as far south as Washington bridge. The village-site was close to the Van Cortlandt mansion. It was destroyed by grading the playing field. See Skinner, Archeological In-vestigations on Manhattan Island, In-dian Notes and Monographs, vol. n, no. 6, 1920 20. Nappeckamak (Map VII, A). The mod-ern Yonkers. A principal station of the Reckgawawanc chieftaincy which was probably situated near the outlet of the Neperah river, not far from Getty