Pleasant to the Hudson at Tarrytown, where it is associated with Irving-'s story of Sleepy Hollow. The Dutch called it " Sleeper's-haven Kil," from the name which they gave to the reach on the Hudson, " Verdrietig Hoek," or " Tedious Point," because the hook or point was so long in sight of their slow-sailing vessels, and in calms their crews slept away the hours under its shadows, " Over against the Verdrietig Hoek, commonly called by the name of Sleeper's Haven," is the record. Pocanteco was a heavily Avooded valley, and suggested to the early mothers stories of ghosts to keep their children from wandering in its depths. From the woods or the valley the name was extended to the stream.' (See Alipkonck.) Alipkonck is entered on Van der Donck's map of 1656, and located with the sign of an Indian village south of Sing Sing. Bolton (Hist. West. Co.) claimed it as the name of Tarrytown, and translated it. " The place of elms," which it certainly does not mean. Its derivative, however, is disguised in its orthography, and its locative is not certain. Conjecturall)% Alipk is from IVdlagk (surd mutes g and p exchanged), "An open place, a hollow^ or excavation." The locative may have been Sleepy Hollow. Tarrytown, which some writers have derived from Tarwe (Dutch), "Wheat" -- Wheat town -- proves to be from an early settler whose name was Terry, pronounced Tarry, as written in early records. The Dutch name for Wheait town would be Tarwe-stadt, whicli was never written here.