^"A meadow or marsh land called Manjakan," is an equivalent record in Ulster County. (Cal.orN.low Papers, Land by Y. lands 133.) "A fresh meadow," 1. e. a fresh water meadow, the side of the creek. ■ Enaughqua, L. I. ; Yb anuck qiiaqiie, Williams; Wcqua, IVcquc, Aqua, Ukwe. Echqu, etc., "end of." The word is met in many forms. IVchque, " as far as." (Eliot.) 'Westenhoek is Dutch. It means "West corner." It was given by the Dutch to a tract of land lying in a bend of Housatonuk river, long m dispute between New York and Massachusetts, called by the Indians W-nngh-tak-ook,

Now Stockbridge, Mass.

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name is now known as Union Corners, Duchess County, where Krom Elleboog Creek, after flowing southwesterly, turns at nearly a right angle and flows west to the Hudson, which it reaches in a narrow channel between bluffs, a little south of Krom Elbow Point, where a bend in the Hudson forms the north end of the Long Reach. The first word of the name is from Wawai, "Round about," "Winding around," "eddying," as a current in a bend of a river. The second, -tan, -ten, -ton means "current," by metonymie, "river," and ock, means "land" or place -- "A bend-of-the-river place." The same name is met in Wawiachtanos, in the Ohio country,^ and the prefix in many places. (See Wawayanda.) Metambeson, a creek so called in Duchess County, is now known as Sawkill. It is the outlet of a lake called Long Pond. The Indian name is from Matt, negative and depreciatory, " Small, unfavorable," etc., and M'beson, " Strong water," a word used in describing brandy, spirits, physic, etc. The rapidity of the water was probably referred to. Waraughkaraeck -- Waraukameck -- a. small lake in the same county, is now known as "Fever Cot or Pine Swamp." The Indian namie is probably an equivalent of Len.