This is probably a term of derision applied to them by other tribes : " Those of little worth." Tatomuck.-- This name has probably lost a syllable or more. The suffix indicates a « fishOn Long Island Arhata-amuck denotes "a crab fishing-place." Corrupted m to Katawamac. some records ing-place."

Toquams.--Ynv., Toquamske. This was a boundary mark in some conveyance, or else a well known landmark ; p'tukqu-ompsk, "at the round-rock." Titicus.--A brook flowing north and west across the State line into the Croton River ; also An abbreviation of Mutightkoos or Matteticos. a village and postoffice in Connecticut.

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Tuckahoe.-- Hill in Yonkers. This appears in Southampton, L. I., and elsewhere, and cocos-- seems to have been applied to a species of truffle or subterranean fungus (Pachyma Fries) sometimes called Indian loaf. The tuckaho of Virginia (tockwhogh, as Captain John Aquati(Oranthim Arum Floating or Club Golden the of root Smith wrote the name) was the cum). -'It groweth like a flag in low, marshy places. In one day a sal vage will gather (Strachey.) These roots are much the bigness and taste of potatoes." sufficient for a week. Waumainuck-- Delancy's Neck. Yar., Wabnanuck, "land round about." Some other place understood. Wampus.--"

The Opossum." A personal name. Weckquaskeek.-- Var., Wechquoesqueeck, Wiequotshook, Weecquoexguck, etc. Schoolcraft's suggestion, " the place of the bark-kettle," and as repeated in various histories, is absolutely worthless.' The name is simply a descriptive appellation of the locality where the Indians lived at the date of settlement. Delaware, Wiquie-askeek, Massachusetts, Wehque-askeet, bog." Chippewa, U'aiekwa-ashkiki, "end of the marsh ofor the foregoing. A variant Weqh</itfghe. -- Yar., Wyoquaqua. Wenntehees.-- A locality in Cortlandt. Probably a personal name from the final s, although early forms, if found, might indicate with a locative an original Winne-pe-es-et, " at the goodtasted water-place," i.e., " a spring." Wishqua. -- " The end." "Yellow-place." Wissayek. -- Dover.