On the rivers are numerous valleys of sweet and salt meadows." The name has, wit!h probable correctness, been interpreted from Metanak-ok (Lenape, Mctanak-onk; Abn., Metanak-ook), meaning, "Along the edge of the island," or, as Van Tienhoven wrote, "About this bay." The same name appears on the Delaware as that of what is now known as Burlington Island." It is corrupted in New Jersey to Tinnicum, and is preserved on Long Island as the name of a village in the town of Ovster Bay. Hog's Island, so called by the early settlers, now known as Center Island, has the record description: "A piece of land on Martin Garretson's Ba}', in the Indian tongue called Matinnecong, alias Hog's Neck, or Hog''s Island, being an island at high tide." (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiv, 435.) "Alatinneckock, a neck on the Sound east of Mudhito Cove." (See Muchito.) The island is connected with the main land by a neck or beach which was overflowed at high tide. Caumsett is recorded as the name of "The neck of land U'hich makes the west side of Cow Harbor and the east side of Oyster Bay" (Ind. Deed of 1654), known later as Horse Neck and Loyd's Neck. Apparently a corruption of Ketumpset, "Near the great standing rock." The reference may have been to \\\vai was known as Bluff Point. Muchito, the name of w'hat is now Glen Cove, near Hempstead Harbor, is otherwise written Muschedo, Mosquito aaid Muscota.

' A corruption from " Martin." '^ Mattinacunk, Matinneconke, Matinnekonck -- " having been formerly known by the name of Kipp's Island, and by ye Indian name of Koomenakanok-onck." (Col. Hist. N. Y.) Koo-menakanok-onck was the largest of two islands in the Delaware and was particularly identified by the Indian name, which means " Pine-tree-Islands place." The name by which the Island came to be known was transferred to it apparently.