Thus the In pictography when there is nothing new to tell. dian pictography throws a little light on the most rude and un promising scene ; and if the sources of these gratifications are No attempt but small, we are indebted to them for this little. of rude nations to perpetuate an idea is ever wholly lost." Atkarkarton, the Indian name for Kingston, was not the name of an Indian village, but for a tract called by the Dutch the

Great Plot, or meadow on which the Indians raised corn At is equivalent to at or by the waters.

and beans.

was called by the Indians Kockto the Dutch as the Flying place hachcbtngh Machawanick a small the called was ; Indians, corner, by stream which enters " the creek called the Kats kil" on the

Nutten Hook, ;

a

at Katskil,

known

south, was called ^uatawicbnaak ; Silvester Salisbury, in 1678,

History of the Indian Tribes of the United States, part Hi, 73.

Ante, p. 157.

APPENDIX.

obtained " five great flats or plains" called Wachacbkeek, Wichquanachtekok, Pachquyak, Assiskowacbkok, and Pot'ick ; a tract sold to Jacob Lockerman was bounded on the south by a creek called

Canasenix,

" east on the river in the Great Imbocht where

Loveridge leaves off, called by the Indians Peoquanackqua, and west by a place called by the Indians htackanock ; " and Henry Beekman had a tract " under the great mountains called Blue

by a place called Kiskatameck"

hills,

The Mabican village