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-

^ Tubby I Took, Dutch Tobbe Hoeck, from its resemblance to a washtub. ° Called Konstabelshc's Hoek from a grant of land to one Jacobus Roy. the Konstabel or gunner at Fort Amsterdam, in 1646.

Courtesy of the Four Track News. THE PALISADES FROM YONKERS.

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keek is the orthography of Riker (Hist, of Harlem) ; and Kekesick that of Brodhead (Hist. New York), in addition to which may be quoted Keesick and Keakates, given as the names of what is now known as Long Pond, which formed the southeast boundary of the tract, where was also a salt marsh or meadow. In general terms, the name means a " meadow," and may have been that of this salt marsh (a portion of the name dropped) or of the flat. The root is Kak, " sharp ;''Kdkdkes, " sharp grass," or sedge-marsh ; Sikkdkaskeg, "salt sedge-marsh." (Gerard.) Micuckaskeete, "a. meadow." (Williams.) Muscota, now in use, is another word for meadow. Mannepies is quoted by Riker (Hist. Harlem) as the name of the hilly tract or district of Keskeskick, described as lying " over against the flats of the island of Manhattan." It is now preserved as the name of Cromwell Lake and creek, and seems to have been the name of the former. The original was probably an equivalent of Menuppek, " Any enclosed body of water great or small." (Anthony.) ' \' \\k Neperah, Nippiroha, Niperan, Nepeehen, Napperhaera, Ar= mepperahin, the latter of date 1642 (Col.