The name as the early Dutch understood it, is no doubt more correctly explained by Jasper Bankers and Peter Sluyter in their Journal of 1679-80: "A headland and high hill in the Highlands, so called because it has a sharp ridge running up and down in the form of a nose," but fails to explain St. Anthony, or Latin Antonius. The name appears also on the Mohawk river and on Lake George, presumably from resemblance to the Highland peak. 'The Indians had no names for mountain ranges, but frequently designated certain peaks by specific names. "Among these aboriginal people," wrote Heckewelder, "every tree was not the tree, and every mountain the mountain ; but, on the contrary, everything is distinguished by its specific name." Kitatinny was and is the most conspicuous or greatest hill of the particular group of hills in its proximity and was spoken of as such in designating the boundmark.

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to the mouth of Peak's Creek (Peekskill). Saknnk (Heck.), "At the mouth or outlet of a creek or river." Saukunk (onck) is another form. (See Titicus.) Aquehung, Acqueahounck, etc., was translated by Dr. O'Callaghan, "The place of peace." from Aqiiene, Nar., "peace," and xmk, locative. Dr. Trumbull wrote, "A place on this side of some other place," from the generic Acq. The descr'iption in N. Y. Land Papers reads, "Bounded on the east by the river called by the Indians Aquehung," the river taking its name from its position as a boundary "on this side" of which was the land. The contemporary name, Ran-ahqua-nng, means "A place on the other side," corresponding with the description, "On the other side of the Great Kil." Bolton assigns Acqueahounck to Hutchinson's Creek, the west boundary of the town of Pelham. The " Great Kil " is now the Bronx.