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

such is the fact as it would accord with Indian custom, as illus trated in the case of the Pakadasank, to which reference will be

made hereafter. the

In regard to

'this

fort, as

well as that called

New fort, Mr. Scott, in another paper, says

:

u From the Delaware to the Hudson there once existed

two

The one started from the great pathways of Indian travel. mouth of the Neversink or Mahakemack, at Port Jervis, and passing by the ancient Peenpack, and through Mamakating

Thence following hollow, struck the Rondout at Napanoch. that stream through Wawarsirig and Rochester, it passed over in Marbletown to the Esopus, and skirted the latter to its mouth at Saugerties. The other crossed the mountain range at

Minnisink, to the eastern valleys, and followed the Shawangunk, the Wallkill and the Rondout to the Hudson.

The first may

be distinguished as the Mamakating, and the second as the

Shawangunk trail.

From trail to trail the cross paths may yet

be traced, and in some places have been marked upon the mountain rocks by the passing footsteps of ages."