Land Papers, 58) : later, "Near a place called Weshiack" (lb. 65), and thence northerly to a place called Wishshiag, and so on about a mile northwest of ye Allum rocks." ^ (lb. 75.) The name seems to have been applied to the north end of West Mountain, where is located the ravine known as the Dover Stone Church, about half a mile west of the village of Dover Plains. The ravine is 20 to 25 feet wide at the bottom, i to 3 feet at the top, 30 to 40 feet long,

' Wallam -- the initial W dropped -- literally, " Paint rocks," a formation of igneous rock which, by exposure, becomes disintegrated into soft earthy masses. There are several varieties. The Indians used the disintegrated masses for paint. The name is met in some forms in all Algonquian dialects. (See Wallomschack.)

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and 40 to 50 feet high, hence called a church. The Webotuck, a tributary of Ten Mile River, flows through the ravine. Dr. Trumbull ("Indian Names in Connecticut") wrote: "IVassiog, (Moh.), alternate IVashiack, a west bound of the ]\'Iohegan country claimed by Uncas ; 'the south end of a very high hill' very near the line between Glastonbury and Hebron," a place near Hartford, Conn., but failed to give explanation of the name. Weputing, Weepitung, Webotuck, Weepatuck (N. Y. and Conn. Rec), given as the name of a "high mountain," in the Sackett Patent, was translated by Dr. Trumbull, from Conn. Records : "Weepatuck, saic.) 'Place of the narrow pass,' or 'strait.'" (See Was-