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.

term was frequently used

to express

crookedness, and in this

instance was applied to the form of the river shore.

Raritan,

a forked river ; Passaic, from Pakhsajek, a valley ; Gamoenapa, the aboriginal for Communipau ; the Raritan Great Meadows

were called Man-kack-ke-wachky ; Wiebacken is still preserved Wehawken Hackinsack river perpetuates the

in the name of

;

name of the Hackinsacks and is the modern rendering of the The name is said to mean, " the original Ack-kin-kas-backy. stream that unites with another

in

low level ground."

Haquequenunck, sometimes spelled Aquackanonk, was the name ract now covered by the city of Patterson, and Totama

for the

the

APPENDIX. name of the falls

a word signifying to sink, to be forced down

under weight by water.

Watchtung

literally

was

mountain

name of a range of hills lying some twelve miles west of the Hudson Ramspook or Ramapo, a river into which empties " crooked a number of round ponds mouth," refer Pompton, and the in to the manner which Ramapo rivers Ringwood ring into the and themselves down Pompton. pass discharge It is said that the Tappans derived their name from lupbanne, Kua cold stream, signifying the people of the cold stream. A small stream mocbenack was the name for Haverstraw bay. flowing into the Ramapo river was the Chesekook, a name also " " to a tract of embraced in and upland and meadow applied " a covered the which as Chesekook known