While the name is repeatedly given as tha.t of the stream, it was probably that of a, place or point on the limestone bluff which here bounds the Hudson on the east

for- several miles. Surveyor Beatty's description, "Beginning at a place where," and the omission of the stream on his map, and its omission on subsequent maps of the manor, and the specific entry in the amended patent of 1715, "Beginning at a certain place called by the Indians Wahankassek," admit of no other conclusion, and the conclusion is, apparently, sustained by the name itself, which seems to be from Moh. Wakhinuihkodsck, "A high point," as a hill, mountain, peak, bluff, etc., from IVaklni, "hill, mountain," uhk, "end, point," and oosic, "peak, pinnacle." etc. The reference may have been to a point formed by the channel of the little stream flowing down from the bluff' above, or to some projection, but cer-

' Oak Hill station on the Hudson River R. R., about five miles south of the city of Hudson, was so called from a hill in the interior just north of the line of the town of Livingston, from wh[ch the land slopes west towards the Hudson and south to Roelof Jansen's Kill. jj ' Vastrix is a compression of Dutch f'l'asfe Rak as written on Van der Donck's map of 1656, meaning, "The fast or steady reach or sailing course," which began here. The island is the first island lying north of the mouth of the Katskill. It is now known as Roger's Island.