togue, meaning 'Burned-over land.' Whether the mainland or Fire Island was the 'Burned-over land,' history does not tell us." Lands were burned over by the Indians to destroy the bushes and coarse grasses, and probably some field of this character was referred to by the Indian grantors, from which the name was extended to the Neck and to Fire Island, although it is said that fires were kindled on the island for the guidance of fishermen. Saghtekoos -- "called by the native Indians Saghtekoos ; by the Christians Appletree Neck" -- the name of the Thompson estate in Islip -- ^probably means, "Where the stream branches or divides," or "At the branch," referring to Thompson's brook. The suffix -oos evidently stands for "small." (See Sohaghticoke.) "Apple-tree Neck " is not in the composition, but may indicate that the Indian owners had planted apple trees there. Amagansett, the Indian name of what is now East Hampton, was translated by Dr. Trumbull, "At or near the fishing place" y root Am, "to take by tihe mouth" ; Amau, "he fishes" ; Abn., Ama"'ga", "ou peche Id." "he fishes there," (Rasles) ; s, diminutive or derogatory ; ett, "Near or a'bout," that is, the tract was near a small or inferior fishing-place, which is precisely what the composition describes. , Peconic, now so written and applied to Pecoriic Bay and Peconic River, but primarily to a place "at the head of the river," or as otherwise described, "Land from ye head of ye bay or Peaconnack, was Shinnecock Indians' Land" (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiv, 600), is not the equivalent of Peqan'nuc, "a name common to all cleared land," as translated by Dr. Trumbull, but the name given as that of a small creek tributary to Peconic River, in which connection it is of record Pehick-komik, which, writes Mr.