It is harmless fiction. Rennaquakonck, Rinnegahonck, a landmark so called in the boundaries of a tract on Wallabout Bay, described in deed as "A certain swamp where the water runs over tlie stones," and, in a subsequent deed, "At the sweet marsh" (Hist, of Brooklyn), is an ortihography of Winnegackonck, meaning "At the sweet place," so called from some plant which was found there, or to distinguish the marsh as fresh or sweet, not a salt marsh. The exchange of R and W may be again noted. Comae, the name of a village in Suffolk County, is an apheresis of Winne-comac, as appears of record. The combination expresses, "Good enclosed place," from Winne, "Good, fine, sweet, beautiful, pleasant," etc., and -komuck, "Place enclosed," or having definite boundaries, limited in size. Nyack, the name of the site of Fort Hamilton, is a generic verbal from A^ait, "A point or corner." (Nd'iag, Mass., Neiak, Len.) Tlie orthographies vary -- Naywayack, Narrack, Nanak, Narrag, Najack, Niuck, Narrioch, etc. Witli the suffix -ak, the name means "Land or place at the point." (See Nyack-on-the-Hudson.) Bankers and Sluyter wrote in their Journal (1679-80) : "We went part of the way through the wtoods and fine, new-made land, and so along the shore to the west end of the island called Najack. * * Continuing onward from' there, we came to the plantation of the Najack Indians, which was planted with maize, or Turkish' Wheat." The

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Nayacks removed to Staten Island after the sale of their lands at New Utrecht. (See Narrioch.) Nissequague, now so written, the name of a hamlet in Smithtown, and of record as t)he name of a river and of a neck of land still so known, is of primary record Nisinckqueg-hackey (Dutch notation), as the name of a place to which the Matinnecock clan removed after the war of 1643. (Col.