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20 muit Spring. The soil in the vicinity of this spring is mixed with oyster, clam, and quahaug shells to the depth of several feet, and from it various aboriginal implements have at different periods been exhumed. It is evident that an Indian village once occupied the locality.

The main trail winding from Kickemuit to Sowarns was intersected by shorter paths leading to various sections of Pokanoket. The Metacom Avenue of today, familiarly known as the "Back Road," is identical with the trail worn by moccasined feet in travelling to and from Mount Hope. Another trail closely following the lines of the present Kickemuit Road, School House Road, and Swansea Road, led to what is now North Swansea, and passed the "national grinding mill" of the Wampanoags, a large flat rock located on the west side of the Swansea Road at a point very near the