Schoolcraft's interpretation, "Safe harbor," from Apokeepsing, is questioned by W. R. Gerard, who, from a personal acquaintance with the locative, "A water-fall," writes : "The name refers not to the fall, but to the basin of water worn out in the rocks at the foot of the fall. Zeis-

^ A translation from the Delaware Scha-gach-we-u, "straight," and meek ■*' fish " -- an iseelno-- eel Trumbull placecorrect. doubt -- has been widely quoted. The translation by Dr.

^ "This fifth day of May, 1683, appeared before me * * a Highland Indian called Massang, who declared herewith that he has given as a free gift, a bouwery (farm) to Pieter Lansingh, and a bouwery to Jan Smeedes, a young glazier, also a waterfall near the bank of the river, to build a mill thereon. The waterfall is called Pooghkeepesingh and the land Minnisingh, situated on the east side of the river." (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 571.) ' Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 71. There are forty-nine record orthographies of the term, from which a selection could be made as a basis of interpretation.^ Poghkeepke, for example, might be accepted as meaning, "Muddy Pond," although there is neither a word or particle in it that would warrant the conclusion.

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berger would have written the word Apuchklpisink, that is, ' At the rock-pool (or basin) of water.' A-puchk-ipis-ink is a composition of ■puchk, 'rock'; ipis, in composition, 'little water,' 'pool of water,' 'pond,' 'little lake,' etc. Pooghk is no doubt from dpughk (apuchk), "rock." The stream has long been known as the Fall Kill. Primarily there seeins to have been three falls upon it, of which Matapan will be referred to later. Wynogkee, Wynachkee, and Winnakee are record forms of the name of a district of country or place from which it was extended to the stream known as the Fall Kill "Through which a kill called Wynachkee runs, * * including the kill to the second fall called Mattapan," is the description in a gift deed to Amout Velie, in 1680, for three flats of land, one on the north and two on the south side of the kill.