Harrington, who says: "Taking into account the interchangeability of the letters / and r, the Delaware roots of these names, both of which are used, might belexau-taney-k, 'at the sandy town,' or lexau-tuk, 'sandy river.' 5. Minetta or Manetta. This brook was not sufficiently distinctive to deserve a title derived from the Manitto, the Great Spirit, nor could it have had any connection with meruit ey, an island. It is most probable that it is a corruption of the prosaic menantachk indicating the "wooded swamp" through which the upper part of the brook meandered. -- M. R. Harrington.

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208 INDIAN PATHS 6. Aspetong; Ashpetong. An elevation, scarcely sufficiently conspicuous to deserve the name of a hill, seems to be indicated by the Delaware aspi, "lifted up," and the locative-owg, "an elevated place, or as we should say, 'rising ground." Information by M. R Harrington. 7. Valentine's Manual for 1865, pp. 608 and 638. 8. Shepmoes. Though we might derive this from the Delaware word sipo, a river, plus the suffix -es, meaning little, there is a closer resemblance to the recorded Natick sepomoese, and it would seem more probable that it is a title descriptive of a local feature, "the little brook."--M. R. Harrington. 9. Valentine's Manual for 1864, p. 847. 10. Rechawanes, Rechewanis. Far from indicating a great space of sand, as has been suggested by Riker and others, the precise derivation appears to be the Delaware lexau-hannes-s or "sand-streamlittle," descriptive of the small creek that flowed between its sandy banks. Rechewas point thus appears as hxau-es or "little sand point."-- M. R. Harrington. 11. Conykeekst. The Delaware kwene-akies-k indicates the character of the tract as a long-place-little-at, or long narrow tract, perhaps wooded, bounded west by the marsh lands and east by the surging -- waters of the East river.