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

"

by the name of Ahashewaghkick ;" then along the said hills to the southernmost end of the same, cailed Wicbquapakkat" In the line of the boundaries " a rock or stone" is called

"a

Acawaisik, and Taghkanick^ the

great

dry gully at

Hudson's river," Sackahampa.

name now applied to

the entire range of

hills

forming the eastern boundary of the manor lands, was originally local, as appears not only from the names given to the north

and south ends respectively, but from the fact that the Indians had no titles for entire mountain ranges. The name is pro

nounced Toh-kon-ick, and is said to have been given to a spring on the west side of the mountains in Copake. Copake lake was called Kookpake. (See Mabopac.} Scompamuck was the

name of the locality now covered by the village of Ghent.

" where the IVawanaquassick, heaps of stones lye j" has its in wa-wa na ; plural signifies good ; quas is stone or stones, and