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,"

a Alb. Rec. c. c 62.

6 Sometimes called the Youurct Vaa Danke. Assize, Kec. Alb. 4T.

c Alb. I{ec. viu. 79, SO. Hoi. Doc.'vi. US. Book of Pat. I., 56.-- O'Callaclian'a ni.^t N'. >'., 3S3. d Valentlae'a Keceipta for rent.

e Niiii. In ttio olJ ulijoaicin, sig-nifies water ; Mc.-s, iu the Mawtauk.-- Trans. Amer. A2li-J Soa il.

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Stone; or as rendered by some '■'■ Mekhkakhsin" meaning copper,'' akksin" stone.'* The latter word appears to denote not a common stone, but the " colored copper stone" bound under some spell of Indian necro mancy. On the east side of this enchanted rock are several Indian marks almost effaced by age. " To these stones they paid all outward signs of worship and devotion, not as to God, but as they are hieroglyphics of the permanency and immutabiHty of the Diety; because these, both for figure and substance, arc, of all sublunary bodies, the least subject to decay or change."* This stone lies in an obscure nook on the eastern shore of the Hudson, at the foot of a steep bank whose sides are shaded wth masses of wild cedar and laurel, the beautiful lake like ap-