1 * * " ^nd thus with various windings it reaches a place which our countrymen call Vischer's Rack, that is the Fisherman's Bend. And here the eastern bank is inhabited by the Pachimi. A little beyond where projects a sandy point and the river becomes narrower, there is a place called Esopus, where the Waoranekys, another barbarous nation, have their abode. To these succeed, after a short interval, the Waranawankconghs, on the opposite side of the river." (De Laet.) "At the Fisher's Hook are the Pachany, Wareneckers," etc. (Wassenaer.)

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dian deed reads : "Beginning on the south side of a creek called Matt'Cawan, from thence northwardly along Hudson's river five hundred yards beyond the Great Wappingers creek or kill, called Mawenawasigh." The stream was given the name of the boundmark and was introduced to identify the place that was five hundred yards north of it, /'. c. the rocky point or promontory through which passes the tunnel of the Hudson River R. R. at New Hamburgh. The name is from Maivc, '"To meet," and Nezmsek,^ "A point or promontory"-- literally, "The promontory where another boundary is met." The assignment of the name to Wappingers' Falls is as erroneous as its assignment to the creek. Wahamanesing is noted by Brodhead (Hist. N. Y.) as the name of Wappingers' Creek -- authority not cited and place w'here the stream was so called not ascertained. The initial W was probably exchanged for M by mishearing, as it was in many cases of record. Mall means "To mee't," Amhannes means "A small river," and the suffix -iug is locative. The composition reads : "A place where streams come together," which may have been on the Hudson at the mouth of the creek. In Philadelphia Moyamansing was the name of a marsh bounded by four small streams. (N.