Whether called the north or name apparently from one par

ticular locality.

This

the word itself.

The first part or noun of the word, shawan or

locality

would seem

to be indicated in

chawan, would seem to be from jewan, swift current or strong stream ; onk or gonk, a place, literally the country of the strong stream, or the rapid water settlement, or if interpreted in con nection with some part of the Wallkill, as indicating a specific

k

portion of the Chawangong trail, the reference may be to a place where the shallowness of the current gave to it rapidity and yet afforded a fording or crossing place.

To precisely such a place

the,trail in question led and the ford there established was not only

used by the Indians and the early settlers, but is still used as such.

Another interpretation is derived from shong\ the Algonquin for mink, and um or oma, water, or onk, a place or country. This would give the mink river, or the mink country. Still another is derived from cheegaugong, the place of leeks, and has no little force in the abundance of wild onions which are still

found in that section of country. Indeed, so universal is farmer there, that they might well have given

this pest of the

their name to the stream, the valley, and the mountains.

APPENDIX.

The name of the Indian castle destroyed by Kregier, and which is described "as being situated at the head of the Kerhonk son," has not been preserveu, unless it has that preservation in the name of the creek itself. It is altogether probable that