Eighty years later we find it varied to Nepperah^'^ the proper Indian orthography of which is evidently Nap-pe-c/ia-mak, rendered literally the ^- rapid waiter settlement^ 4'hus graphically expressing the situation of the Mohegan village, at the mouth of the Neperah, or rapid waters. e In the deep seclusion of the ancient forests that once bordered this beautiful stream, were located other Indian villages, some of the sites of which tradition has preserved to us ; one of these occupied the eastern edge of Boar Hill. A Mohegan castle ornamented the steep side ot Berrian's Neck, styled in the Indian tongue Nipnichsen. It was carefully protected, by a strong stockade, from the attacks of the warlike Sauk-hi-ccin-ni, (fire workers.) inhabiting the Jersey shores, and commanded the romantic scenery of the Spuyten Duyvel Creek and Hudson River. The junction of the two streams was called, in the Indian, Slwrackappock. The last settlement of the Nappeckamak Indians remembered in this town stood near the present residence of Abraham Fowler, on a rising bank of the Neperah (Saw Mill.) The crystal waters of this sweet stream (which rims principally north and south) arise from two perennial springs in

a Alb. Rec. C. C. G2.

t Sometimes called the Younger Van Dunke. Assize Rec. Alb. 47.

« Alb. Rec. viii. 79, 80 ; Hcl. Doc. vi. 118 ; Book of Pat. i. 5(J ; O'Callaghan's Hist. N. N. 28-2.

d Valentine receipts for rent.

« Nipi, in the old Algonkin, signifies water; Nicp, in the Montauk. Traas. Amer. Antiq See. ii. ., ■ •.:-,.