Van der Donck, the historian, in his map of 1656, locates the Indian village of Pechquenakonck somewhere in this vicinity. The Indian burying ground is situated on the estate of the late Hon. Isaac Purdy, in this town, a little north-west of the mansion house. In 1778 upwards of forty mounds were visible. Vast quantities of arrow and spear heads are found on the higher grounds of this town, showing that Mamanusquag and Appamaghpogh were once great hunting grounds. The Titicus river still retains a portion of its ancient Indian name, Mutighticoos.6 This beautiful stream rises from the West Mountain, a portion of the "Asproom Ledges" or hills, in the town of Ridgefield, Connecticut, upon the estate of Thomas Smith, commonly designated as the " Indian Farm," near which were the two ponds denominated Nassopack and Askeeto. Tradition asserts that the Mutighticoos was sometimes called Buffalo Creek. What similarity exists between the Indian name and its English substitute, or if any, we are unable at this distant period to determine. The latter certainly bears ample testimony to the fact, that the vast gorges of the Highlands and these vales once abounded with the buffalo. Van der Donck, the patroon of Yonkers, writing in 1656, says of this animal : "Buffaloes are also tolerably plenty; these animals mostly keep towards the southwest, where few people go." " Again, it is remarked (says the same writer) that the half of these animals have disappeared and left the country."" It ought to be remembered that, long after the discovery of this country by the Dutch in 1609, and up to a very late period, Salem and the adjoining territory was an unexplored wilderness. A small tributary of the Mutighticoos bears the Indian name of Mopns.