Schoolcraft conferred, on several points, terms from the Ojibwe or Chippeway, which may be repeated as descriptive merely. A hill at the corner of Charlton and Varick streets was called by him IsJipatiiiau, "A bad hill." ^ A ridge or cliff north of Beekman Street, was called Ishibic, " A bad rock ;" the high land on Broadway, Acitoc ; a rock rising up in the Battery. Abie, and Mount Washington, Penabic, " The comb mountain." The descriptions are presumably correct, but the features no longer exist.

Muscota is given as the name of the " plain or meadow " known later as Montague's Flat, between io8th and 124th streets. (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiv.) It also appears as the name of a hill, and in Muskuta as that of the great flat on the north side of the Spuyten Duivel. " The first point of the main land to the east of the island Papirinimen, there where the hill Muskuta is." The hill takes the name from the meadows which it describes. " Moskehtu, a meadow." (EHot.) Papinemen (1646), Pahparinnamen (1693), Papirinimen (modern), are forms of the Indian name used interchangeably by the Dutch with Spuyten Duivel to designate a place where the tideoverflow of the Harlem River is- turned aside by a ridge and unites with Tibbet's Brook, constituting what is known as the Spuyten Duivel Kill, correctly described by Riker in his " History of Harlem " : " The narrow kill called by the Indians Pahparinamen,