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
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stream emptying into the Hudson just below Stony point, was called Minnisconga, from minnis an island, co or con, object, and
ga a place, referring without doubt to Stony point itself which was then an island. The site of the present town of Orangetown was called the Narrasunck lands as late as 1769, a name which probably has its signification in na and unk, " good land." Verdrietig hook, or Tedious point, as the Dutch called it from the fact that it was generally so long in sight from their slowsailing sloops, was called ^uaspeck, from qusuk, a stone. " small rivulet called Opposite Anthony's Nose, was a by ye Indians Assinnapink" or ct the stream from the solid rocks."