At the date of settlement by Van der Huyden (1720), it is said there were stripes or patches within the limits of the present city which were known as "The corn-lands of the Indians," ' from which the interpretation in French's Gazetteer, "Fields of corn," whidh the name never meant in any language. The name may have had an Indian antecedent, hnt as it stands it is Dutch from Paan-pacht, meaning "Low, soft land," or farm of leased land. The same name appears in Paanpack. Orange county, which see. Piskawn, of record as the name of a stream on the north line of Troy, describes a branch or division of a river. Rale wrote in Abnaki, "Peskakoon, branche," of which Piskawn is an equivalent. Sheepshack and Pogquassick are record names in the vicinity of Lansingburgh. The first has not been located. It seems to stand for Tsheepenak, a, place where the bulbous roots of the yellow lily were obtained -- ^modern Abnaki, Sheep'nak. Pogquassick appears as the name of a "piece of woodland on the east side of the river, near an island commonly called Whale-fishing Island," correctly, Whalefish Island.^ This island is now overflowed by the raising of the water by the State dam at Lansingburgh. The Indian name does not belong to the woodland; it locates the tract near the island, in which connection it is probably an equivalent

1 Weise's Hist, of Troy. * Woodward's Reminiscences of Troy. ' "Whale-fishing Island" is a mistranslation of "Walvish Eiland" (Dutch), meaning simply "Whale Island." It is related by Van der Donck (1656) the thatoneduring river, the great of which freshet ofand1647, was stranded a number killed on this ofisland. whales Hence ascende'd the «ame.