Eighty years later we find it varied to JVeJ>^erah,'^t\\e. proper Indian orthography of which is evidently Nap-pecha-mack, rendered literally tlie rapid laafer settlement, thus graphically expressing the situation of tlie Mohegan village, at the mouth of the Neperah, or rapid waters. « In the deep seclusion of the ancient forests that once bordered this beautiful stream, were located other Indian villages, some of the sites of which tradition has preserved to us; one of these occupied the eastern edge of Boar Hill. A Mohegan castle ornamented the steep side of Berrian's Xeck, styled in the Indian tongue Nipnichse:t. It was carefully protected by a strong stockade, from the attacks of the war-like Sank-hi-can-ni, (fire workers,) inhabiting the Jersey shores, and commanded the romantic scenery of the Spuyten Du>-vel Creek and Hudson River. The junction of the two streams was called, in the Indian, Shorackappock. The last settlement of the Xappeckamak Indians remembered in this town stood near the present residence of Abraham Fowler, on a rising bank of the Xeperah, (saumill.) The crystal waters of this sweet stream, (which runs princij)ally north and south,) arise from two perennial springs in the bosom of the Chappequa hills. To this nymph of the valley the Indians (as their custom was) offered sacrifice, the perpetuity of her motion tipifying to them the eternity of God.

In the north-west corner of this town, west of the saw mill, (Xeperah) is situated the rock Meghkeckassin, Amackassin, or the great stone, sometimes called Megkkeckassin, and Afacakassin, a name probably deriveil from two Delaware words, '' Machaak" signifying '-'great," '' ae/isin,"