It is claimed to be from the Wyandot or Huron-Iroquoian dialect. In History of Detroit the Algonquin is quoted the claim made Waweatunong, that the reference was interpreted to the bend" Circuitous in the Straitapproach," at Detroitand at an elevation " from which a view of the whole broad river " could be had. In Shawano, Wawia'tan describes bending or eddying water -- with locative, "Where thethefeatures where current exist. winds about." The name is applicable at any place

' Magdalen Island is between Upper and Lower Red-hook. The original Dutch, Maagdelijn, supposed to mean "A dissolute woman," here means, simply, "Maiden," i. e. shad or any fish of the herring family. (See Magaat Ramis.) The name appears on Van der Donck's map of 1656.

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Vly," is probably an equivalent of Paiiqua-ask-ek. "Open or clear wet meadow or vly." Sankhenak and Saukhenak are record forms of the name given as that of Roelof Jansen's Kil (Do'c. Hist. N. Y., iii, 612; French's Gazetteer.) Sauk-hannek would describe the mouth or outlet of the stream, and Sank-hannek would read "Flint-stone creek." Sauk is probably correct. The purchase included land on both sides of the creek from "A small kil opposite the Katskil," on the north, called Wachhanekassik. "to a place opposite Sagertyes Kil, called Saaskahampka." The stream is now known as Livingston's Creek. ^ Wachanekassik, Indian deed to Livingston, 1683 ; Waghankasick, patent to Van Rensselaer, 1649, ^^'d other ortliographies, is written as the name of a small creek which marked the place of beginning of the northwest boundmark of the Livingston Patent and the place of ending of the southwest boundmark O'f the prior Van Rensselaer Patent of Claverack. The latter reads ; " * * And so along the said Hudson River southward to the south side of Vastrix Island, by a creek called Waghankasick, thence easterly to Wawanaquasik," etc.