In general terms it means " Place," limited or enclosed," a particular place as a field, garden, house, etc., as distinguished from auke, " Land, earth, unlimited, unenclosed." ^The Indians are traditionally represented as regarding boulders of this class, as monuments of a great battle which was fought between their hero myth Micabo and Kasbun his twin brother, the former representing the East or Orient, and the latter the West, the imagery being a description of the primary contest between Light and Darkness -- Light learning from the East and Darkness retreating to the West before it- Says the story: "The feud between the brothers was bitter and the contest long and doubtful. It began on the mountains of the East. The face of the land was seamed and torn by the wrestling of the mighty combatants, and the huge boulders that are scattered about were the weapons hurled at each other by the enraged brothers." The story is told in its several forms by Dr. Brinton in his " American Hero Myths."

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as twenty miles (Eng'lish). Standard Dutch miles would be about eighteen. The Armonck is now called Byram River ; it flows to the Sound on the boundary line between New York and Connecticut. A part of the territory of this tribe is loosely described in a deed of 1682, as extending- " from the rock Sigbes, on Hudson's River, to the Neperah, and thence north until you come to the eastward of the head of the creek, called by the Indians Wiequaskeck,^ stretching through the woods to a kill called Seweruc," including " a piece ■of land about Wighqueskeck,'' i. e. about the bead of the creek, which was certainly at the end of a swamp. The historic seat of the clan was in this vicinity.