Nanichiestawack, given as the name of an Indian village on the southern spur of Indian Hill (so called) in the town of Bedford, rests on tradition. Petuckquapaug, a pond in Greenwich, Ct., but originally under the jurisdiction of the Dutch at Fort Amsterdaim, signifies "Round Pond." It is now called "Dumpling Pond." The Dutch changed the suffix to paen, "soft land," and in that form described an adjacent district of low land, (See Tappan.) Katonah, the name of a sachem, is preserved in that of a village

' Pockotessewacke and Beaver-meadow Brook. (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers.)

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in the town of Bedford. The district was known as "Katoiiah's land." food. In deed of 1680, the orthography is Katoonah -- ^00 as in

Succabonk, a place-name in the town of Bedford, stands for Sagabonak-ong, "Place of ground nuts," or wild potatoes. (See Sagabonock.) Wequehackhe is written by Reichel ("Mem. Moravian Church") as the name of the Highlands, with the interpretation, "The hill country" -- "People of the hill country." The name has no such meaning. Weque or IVcqua, means "The end," and -hackhc (hacki) means "Land," not up-land. In other words, the boundary was the end of the Highlands.' Mahopack, the modern form of the name of a lake in Putnam County, is of record Makoohpcck in 1765, and Macookpack on Sauthier's map of 1774, which seem to stand for M'achkookpcek {Ukhokpeck, Mah.), meaning "Snake Lake," or "Water where snakes are abundant." (See Copake.) In early years snakes were abundant in the region about the lake, and are not scarce in present times.^ The lake is ten miles in circumference and lies sixteen hundred feet above the level of Hudson's River. It contains two or tliree small islands, on the largest of which is the traditionally famous "Chieftain's Rock." Canopus, claimed to have been the name of an Indian sachem and now preserved in Canopus Hollow, Putnam County, is not Indian ;it is Latin from the Greek name of a town in Egypt.