It is probably a pronunciation of Accomh-suck-ohke , "Land or place at the outlet beyond." The record name of Bellport is Occombomeck, Accobamuck, etc., meaning, "Fishing-place beyond," which, as the deeds show, was a fishing-place at a freshwater pond, now dried up. The name is readily confused with Aquebogue. Moriches, a neck of land "lying at Unquetague, on the south side of Long Island, being two necks called by ye names of Mariges and Namanock" (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 45), is now in the town of Brookhaven. Namanock seems, from the locative, to be a corruption of Nam'c-ohke, "Fish-place" -- Namanock or Namecock. (Trumbull.)^ Moriches, or Mariges, is a corruption of Dutch

^ There were two places bearing the name of Fire-place, one on the north side latter of the island is referred on Gardiner's Bay, and one on the south side. The to here.

' Otherwise written Unquetauge -- "land lying at Unquetauge, on the south side of Long Island, in the county of Suffolk." Literally, "Land beyond;" "on the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or awayt than." Onckeway, a place beyond Stamford, on Connecticut river. (Col. Hist. N. Y.) "Ongkoue, beyond Pequannuc river." (Trumbull.) 'Namaus, generic, "a fish" -- Naniohs, Eliot; Names, Abn., Namaes, Heck. ; Namees, Zeisb. ; with suffix -aki, -ohke, etc., " fish-land," place or country. Amcessak, Zeisb.; Anmesooak, Abn., Aumsiiog, Mass., "small fishes." As a generic suffix, -ama'ug, Mass., -ama'uk, Del, "fishing-place."

82 INDIAN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

Maritches (Morichi, Mariche), from Moriche Palniita (Latin), meaning, in popular use, any plant thougfht to resemble a palm. Maiiritia a species of Mauriticae, or South-American palm, so called in honor of Prince Maurice of Nassau. (See Palmagat.) Kitchaminchoke, given as the name of a boundmark, said to be Moriches Island, is interpreted by Dr.