had a chart from his own tracing or from that of a previous explorer, which he forwarded to his employers, or of which they had a copy, when he wrote in his Journal : " On that side of the river called Mannahata;' as a reference by which his employers could identify the side of the river on which the Half-Moon anchored,' Presumably the chart was drawn by Hudson and forwarded with his report, and that to him belong-s the honor of reducing to an orthographic form the first aboriginal name of record on the river which now bears his name. Five years after Hudson's advent Adriaen Block wrote Manhates as the name of what is now New York Island, and later, De Vries wrote Manates as the name of Staten Island, both forms having the same meaning, /. e., " Small island." There have been several interpretations of Mannahatin, the most analytical and most generally accepted being by the late Dr. J. H. Trumbull: " From Menatey (Del.), ' Island '--Manmhata ' The Island,' the reference being to the main land or to Long Island as the large island. Menatan (Hudson's Mannah-atin, -an or -in, the indefinite or diminutive form), ' The small island,' or the smaller of the two principal islands, the Manhates of Adriaen' Block.* Mandhtons, ' People of the Island,' Mandhatanesen, ' People of the small islands.' " ^ The Eastern-Algonquian word for " Island " (English notation), is written Miinnoh, with formative -an (Munnohan). It appears of record, occasionally, in the vicinity of New York, presumably introduced by interpreters or English scribes. The usual form is the Lenape Menate. Chippeway Miiuiis, " Small island," classed also as Old Algonquian, or generic, may be met in the valley of the Hudson, but the instances are not clear.