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. Kakeout, the name of the highest hill in Westchester County, is from Dutch Kijk-uit, " Look-out -- a place of observation, as a tower, hill," etc. It appears also in Rockland and in Ulster County and on the Mohawk. (See Kakiate.) Shappequa, a name now applied to the Shappequa Hills and to a mineral spring east of Sing-Sing, and destined to be remembered as that of the home of Horace Greeley, was primarily given to locate a tract now embraced in the towns of New Castle and Bedford, and, as in all such cases, was a specific place by which the location could be identified, but wliich in turn has never been identified. The name is apparently a form of Chepi written also Chappa, signifying, "Separated, apart from, a distinct place." ^ (See Kaphack.) Aspetong, a bold eminence in Bedford, is an equivalent of Ashpohtag. Mass., "A high place," "A height." (Trumbull.) See Ishpatinau.

^ The word Chippe or Shappa, means not only separate, "The separate place," but was employed to describe a future condition -- Chepeck, the dead. As an adjective, Chippe (El.) signilies separated, set apart. Chepiohkomuk, the place of separation. The same word was used for ' ghost,' ' spectre,' 'evil spirit.' (Trumbull.) The corresponding Delaware word was Tschipey. It is not presumed that the word was made use of here in any other sense than its literal application, "A separate place." Bolton assigns the name to a Laurel Swamp, but with doubtful correctness.