place of the inflowing waters ; hills ;

on,

dar,

'

Ticonprecipitous rocks, and

oga, place." ^uequicke was the name of the falls (Schooler aft.} on the Hoosick east of the bounds of Schaticook, now known In answer to the claim that the Hoosick as Hoosick Falls.

takes its name from is

"

Abraham Hoosac, one of the early settlers,

the positive assertion, in one of the first patents, that a tract, twenty-five English miles north-east of the city of Albany,"

was " known by the Indian name of Hoosack." The name is from hussun, stone, and ack, place literally "stony country."

A strata of round stones, such as are used for street pavements, apparently underlies the entire valley. the west side of the Hudson and the harbor of

On

York are the Neversink hills.

from onawa, water, between the waters, and sink, a The word but this interpretation appears to be forced.

is

craft,

place

New

The name, according to School-

;

Hudson found probably signifies a place abounding in birds. the Indians there "clothed in mantles of feathers. Amboy, Heckewelder, is from emboli, and signifies a in the rear Epatittg, place resembling a bowl or bottle. hence of Jersey city, is from ishpa, high, and ink, a place according to

a high place, supposed to be Snake hill. Schoolcraft applies the same term to "the

Iskpatink, or Espating,

(O' Cal/agban.)

Arissheck high sandy bank now known as Brooklyn Heights." was the name of Paulus Hook, now Jersey City. Hobokenbacking was the name of the tract now embraced in the site of The Hoboken, and is said to have meant tobacco pipe.