Mech), a comparative term -- "great," as distinguished from "small," the largest of two, and Sepees {Sepoiis, Septals), "a brook." Sepe, Sipo, Sipti, etc., is generally applied to a long stream. The west branch of Mespatt Kill has the record name of Quandoequareus. Flint wrote: "The Canapauke, or Dutch Kills, sluggishly winding its way through the meadows of bronzed grass'es." Canapauke stands for Quaiia-pe-auke, "Long waterland," or "Land on the long water." The stream is a tidal current receiving several small streams. (See Massepe.) Mespatches seem's to belong to the stream noted in patent of 1642. Sint=Sink, of record as tjhe name of Schout's Bay, ''also, "Formerly called Cow Neck, and by the Indians Sint-Sink," was the name of a place n'ow known as Manhasset. (Col. Hist. N. Y.) It means "Place of small stones," as in Sint-Sink, modern Sing-Sing, on the Hudson. Manhasset, correctly Manhanset, means, "Near the Island," or something less than at the island. The locative was long known as "Head of Cow Neck." Matinnecock is noted in a survey for Lewis Morris, in 1685 : "A tract of land lying upon the north side of Long Island, within the township of Oyster Bay, in Queens County, and known by the name of Matinicock," and. in another survey : "A certain small neck of land at a place called Mattinicock." Extended also to an island and to an Indian clan. Cornelius van Tienhoven wrote in 1650:

^ " Missiachpitschik, Onond. Die.) those who are or live scattered." (Zeisberger's