TRAILS 



47 



Rondout at Marbletown. leaving- that stream at Napanoch, passing 

 through Mamakating .hollow, and reaching the mouth of the Never- 

 sink river at Port Jervis. In these and other cases most of the trails 

 are modern. 



With these data before us, and admitting" a general truth, we can 

 see that the Cayuga chief W'a-o-wo-wa-no'-unk, or Peter Wilson, 

 was somewhat rhetorical when he said : 



The Empire State, as you love to call it, was once laced by our 

 trails from Albany to Buffalo, — trails that we had trod for centuries — 

 trails worn so deep by the feet of the Iroquois that they became 

 your roads of travel, as your possessions gradually eat into those of 

 my people. Your roads still traverse those same lines of communi- 

 cation which bound one part of the Long House to the other. 



