Martin Cornelisz Ysselsteyn images
"The Erie Canal crosses their Schenectady farm. In its passage across the bouwland was made over a series of dove gats or dead holes containing dead water, once doubtless the ancient bed of an arm of the river. One of these dove gats (called "Maritje's Gat") near the junction of the Prince town and river roads, of great breadth and depth, was enclosed by the two banks of the canal and called “Navarino Bay." —M'M.