appropriate Acbsinink ; then the settlers along the kil for miles were said to have it for their home ; then the mountains or high

its

hills running from Rosendale to Minnisink, were thus designated ;

And here and finally the precinct and afterwards the township. let it be remarked that the name belongs in no sense whatever to the mountains now bearing it.

The Evans patent calls them

the high hills of Pitkiskakera.n& Aioskawosting.

they are for years termed simply the high

In local records, hills

or the steep

rocks.

After a careful analysis of the word, he concludes

" I venture to

:

Shawan south water. interpret Sbawangum at the south water, water being referred the on or etc., place gunk, :

to generically, and not specifically, as the proper, name of the kil.

But to what kil and to what locality is Shawangunk relatively Take the map of Ulster county, and notice the posi in tion, respect to each other of the Rondout and of the Sha wangunk kils ; and remember that the Indian paths from one south ?

north and south, and one valley to the other, ran almost due and the hunter passed The warrior reason is manifest. good either from the north part of Shawangunk proper through the traps,

to Marbletown, or from

the south part of the same, by Awos-

Stand upon the to the Kerhonkson. mountain top and glance down either path, to the winding streams, and upon their corn fields, and the meaning of the ting lake