Eliot also wrote -pick or -p'sk, in compound words, meaning ''Rock," or "stone," as qualified by the adjectival prefix, Omp'sk, " Standing rock." ^ Literally, "A meeting point," or sharp extremity of a hill. 'Doc. Hist. N. Y., iii, 1039. The heap referred to by Rev. Hawley was on the path leading to Schohare. It gave name to what was long known as the "Stoneheap Patent." The heap is now in the town of Espcrance and near Sloansville, Schohare Coimty. It is four rods long, one or two wide, and ten to fifteen feet high. (French.)

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mark of tlie Manor of Livingston, and described as "the northernmost end of the hills that are to the north of Tachkanick " -- specifically by the surveyor, "To a heap of stones laid together on a certain hill called by the Indians Ahasliawag-hkik, by the north end of Taghanick hill or mountaiin " -- has been translated from Nashaue-komuk (Eliot), "A place between." Dr. Trumbull noted Ashowugh-commocke, from the derivatives quoted -- Na^shaue, " betwe n" ;-komiik, "place," limited, enclosed, occupied, i. e. by "a heap of stones laid togetiher," probably by the surveyor of the prior Van Rensselaer Patent, of which it was also a boundmark. The hill is now the nor'theast comer of the Massachusetts boundary line, or the north end of Taghkanick hills. Taghkanick, the name of a town in Columbia County and primarily of a tract of land included in the Livingston Patent and located "behind Potkoke," is written Tachkanick in the Indian deed of 1685; Tachhanick in the Indian deed of 1687-8; "Land called Tachkanick which the owners reserved to plant upon when they sold him Tachhanick, with the land called Quissichkook ;" Tachkanick, "having the kill on one side and the hill on the other" ; Tahkanick (Surveyor's notation) 1715 -- ^is positively located by the surveyor on the east side of the kill called by the Indians Saukhenak, and by the purchasers Roelof Jansen's Kill.