which the reader will recognize in the change in dialect shown The creek was called Sankpenak. in the geographical terms. In the Livingston patent, of which it formed the southern boundary, the names of a number of localities are given, and, in some cases, their signification. In his first purchase were " three or tracts of u flat lands" called

Nekankook, planes" tc a Kickua, and Wicquaskaka, lying on the Hudson between small creek or kil" lying over against Katskill, called Wackanhasiack, and a place called by the Indians

Swaskahamuka.

His

second, or Taghkanlck tract, began at a place called Minis" to a creek" called sichtanock ; thence west along a small hill " " to a high place called Skaanpook^ which, ghiissicheook ; thence " a little lower down" is called Twastawekah ; then south along the

foot

of the high mountains

tl

to

the

path that goes to

" to a hill called Wawijchtanok, by the Indians Mananosick ,-" " a creek" called Nachawawachkano^ " which then west to " where the two into the Twastawekah" the creek

place empties creeks meet being called Mawichnanck." His third purchase at a creek called thence to a place called ; Wachankasigh began

u

where the heaps of stories lye," near the Wawanaquassick, head of a creek called Nanapenahekan, u which comes out of a

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marsh lying near unto the said hills of the said heaps of stones

upon which the Indians throw another as they pass by, from an ancient custom among them ;" then to the u northernmost end of the hills that are to the north of Tacabkanick, known