In the patent to Hugh O'Neil (1666) : " To the Kill Shorakapoch, and then to Papirinimen," /. c, to the cove and thence east to the Spuyten Duyvil passage. " The beautiful inlet called Schorakapok." (Riker.) Dr. Trumbull wrote " Showaiikuppock (Mohegan), a cove." William R. Gerard suggests ''P'skurikuppog (Lenape), 'forked, fine harbor,' so called because itwas safely shut in by Tubby Hook,^ and another Hook at the north, the current taking a bend around the curved point of rock (covered at high tide) that forked or divided the harbor at the back." Dr. Brinton wrote: " W'shakuppek, 'Smooth still water ;' pek, a lake, cove or any body of still water ; kup, from kiippi, 'cove,' " Bolton, in his." History of Westchester County," located at the mouth of the stream, on the north side, an Indian fort or castle under the name of Nipinichen, but that name belongs on the west side of the Hudson at Konstable's Hook,- and the narrative of the attack on Hudson's ship in 1609, noted in Juet's Journal, does not warrant the conclusion that there was an Indian fort or castle in the vicinity. A fishing village there may have been. At a later date (1675) the authorities permitted a remnant of the Weckquasgecks to occupy lands " On the north point of Manhattan Island " (Col, Hist. N. Y., xiii, 494), and the place designated may have been in previous occupation.

Names on the East from Manhattan North.

Keskeskick, "a pijce of land, situated opposite to the flat on the island of Manhattan, called Keskeskick, stretching lengthwise along the Kil which runs behind the island of Manhattan, beginning at the head of said Kil and running to opposite of the high hill by the flat, iiamely by the great hill," (Deed of 1638.) Kax-