230 INDIAN PATHS quantities of material in shell-pits, also many burials. The greater part of these objects is in the American Museum of Natural History, and one fine pointedbottom jar is in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. 65. Mespaetches (Map VIII, B). The modern Maspeth. The name is applied to Newtown creek and the contiguous swampy area, and probably to the place of residence of some natives known as the Maspeth tribe. The name denotes "at the bad water place" (Tooker, Indian Place Names). 66. Rinnegaconck (Maps II; VIII, A). A native evidenced by debris, firesite, pits, and weapons, which existed on a hillock at Bridge street. This site is described and located by Gabriel Furman (Antiquities of Long Island, 1875). The name was applied to the vicinity of Wallabout bay, and probably included this occupied station. 67. Werpos, Worpus (Map VIII, A). A village in the 10th ward of old Brooklyn, bearing the same name as the Manhattan village (2). It was situated near Hoyt and Baltic streets, on the old farm of Fredrick Lubbersen, and was then a close neighbor of Marechkawick (117). 68. Nayack (Map VIII, C). The name denoting a point of land, probably applied to the whole neck which now includes Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton. The position of the native village to which

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the of lower Manhattan inhabitants retired not known. It would have is been favorably situated at the southeast end of the United States reservation near the water supply in Dyker Heights Park. 69. Xarrioch (Map VIII, D). That part of Gravesend neck lying to the east of the town between Squam creek and Shellbank creek. It is probable that native sites may be discovered along the latter water-course. The tract seems to have been an appendage of the Shanscomacocke village (50). 70.