be changed to Mawenawasigh.

Apoquague was the Indian name of what is now called Silver The name signifies " round pond." Wtclake, in Fishkill.

was the Indian name of the highest peak in the Fishkill mountains on the south border of East Fishkill, and also of the

copee

pass or gorge in the mountains through which the Indian trail An Indian castle is traditionally located here, formerly ran.

and another

at

Shenandoab.

It

is

said

that at Fishkill

hook

remains of an Indian burial ground have been found, and also that apple trees planted by them were still bearing within the

memory of the earlier inhabitants. An explanation of Wappingers may be proper in this connec tion.

Although passed irrevocably

into history, the term

is

a

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corruption of wabun, east, and acki, land which, as applied by the Indians to themselves, may be rendered Eastlanders, or Men

of the East.

The French preserved the original very nearly in

Abenaque, and Heckewelder

in

Wapanacbki

(note, ante p. 45).

The Dutch historians are responsible for Wappingers, perhaps from their rendering of the sound of the original word, and per haps as expressing the fact that they were, in the Dutch lan guage, wapen or half-armed Indians.

Fourteen miles west of the Hudson and a few miles north of Poughkeepsie was ^uerapoquett^ from whence the boundary of the

Sackett tract ran north-east to a tree on the east side of

the Wesiack subsequently known as Ten Mile river. Of the Indian name, O'Callaghan says " Wissayck, rocky country," :