The exact line is lost today, but we know it followed the general limit of Washington Square North.

On the east was the Indian trail.
Sarah Comstock says: "The Indian trail has been, throughout our country, the beginning of the road.

In his turn, the Indian often followed the trail of the beast.

Such beginnings are indiscernible for the most part, in the dusk of history, but we still trace many an old path that once knew the tread of moccasined feet." [Illustration: MAP OF OLD GREENWICH VILLAGE.

A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made in the Eighteenth Century, when Greenwich was more than two miles from the city.] Here, between the short lane that ran from the _Bouwerij_ toward the first young sprout of Greenwich, and the primitive Sand Hill (or Sandy Hill) Trail lay a certain waste tract of land.