Hell-gate, a vulgar orthography of Dutch Hellegat, has long been the popular name of the place. It was conferred by Adriaen Block, in 1614-16, to tlie dangerous strait known as the East River, from a strait in Zealand, which, presumably, was so called from Greek Hellc, as heard in Hellespont -- " Sea of Helle " -- now known as the Dardanelles -- vi^hich received its Greek name from Helle, daugliter of Athamas, King of Thebes, who, the fable tells us, was diT'^-^f-d in passing ovtv it. Probably the Dutch sailors regarded the strait as the " Gate of Hell," but that is not the meaning of the name -- " a dangerous strait or passage." In some records the strait is called Hurlgate, from Dutch Warrel, " Whirl," and gat, " Hole, gap, mouth " -- substantially, " a whirlpool." Monachnong, deed to De Vries, 1636; Menates, De Vries's Journal; Ehquaons (Eghquaous, Brodhead, by mistake in the letter n), deed of 1655, and Aquehonge-Monuchnong, deed to Governor Lovelace, 1670, are forms of the names given as that of Staten Island, and are all from Lenape equivalents. Meitates means '■' Small island " as a whole ; Monach'nong means a " Place on the island," or less than the whole, as shown by the claims of the Indians in 1670, that they had not previously sold all the island. (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 453.) It is the equivalent of Menach'hen, Minsi ; Menach'n, Abn., " Island," and ong, locative ; in Mass. Mimnoh-hanauke. (See Mannhonake.) Eghquaons and Aquehonga are equivalents, and also equivalents of Achquoanikan-ong, " Bushnet fishingplace," of which Acquenonga is an alternate in New Jersey. (Nelson's "Indians of New Jersey," 122.) In other words, the Indians