The custom referred to had nothing of worship in it, nor was it

in recognition of an

u unknown

God," or of a

u local

deity."

The stone heaps were always by the side of a trail or regularly traveled path, and usually at or near a stream of water. The Indians paused to refresh themselves, and, by throwing a stone or a stick to a certain place, indicated to other travellers that a friend had passed.

Twastawekak, was the name of what is now known as Klaverack creek. Machackoesk was the name of a tract lying

on both sides of Kinderhook creek ; Pomponick that of another tract in the same vicinity, and Kenagktequak that of a small

The New England path, one of the routes of travel creek. between the Indians of the Hudson and those of the east, ran along a portion of the boundary line of the Kinderhook patent. Kinderhook is Dutch of course, but is said to have had its origin point was a favorite place for the children of the Indians to practice their games, and perhaps the only point at which they could be observed from vessels passing on in the fact that the

the river, as the

Dans-Kammer was the

devil worship was similarly observed.

only point at

which

There is a fragrance in

the fact that makes the name more palatable than most of the Dutch 'geographical terms. Scbodac^ to

which

tradition assigns the important position of

the capital of the Mahicans at the time of the discovery, is now