Wallumschack, so written in return of survey of patent granted to Cornelius van Ness and others, in 1738, for lands now in Washington County ; IValloomscook, and other forms ; now preserved inWalloomsac, as the name of a place, a district of country, and a stream flowing from a pond on the Green Mountains, in the town of Woodford, near Bennington, Vermont.^ It has not been specifically located, but apparently described a place on the adjacent hills where material was obtained for making paints with which the Indic^ns daubed their bodies. (See Washiack.) It is from a generic root written in diiiferent dialects, Walla, Wara etc., meaning " Fine, handsome, good," etc., from wliich in the Delaware, Dr. Brinton derived Wdldm, "Painted, from the sense to be fine in appearance, to dress, w^hich the Indians accomplished by painting their bodies," and -onipsk (Natick), with the related meaning of standing or upright, the combination expressing " Place of the paint rocks." ^ The ridges of many of the hills as well as of the mountains in the district are composed of slate, quartz, sandstone and limestone, which compose the Takonic system. By exposure the slate becomes disintegrated and forms an ochery clay of several colors, which the Indians used as paint. The washing away of the rock left the quartz exposed in tlie form of sharp points, wliich were largely used by the Indians for making axes, lance-heads, arrow points, etc. Some of the ochre beds have been extensively worked, and plumbago has also been obtained. White Creek, in the same county, takes that name from its white clay banks.