Land Papers, p. 60 : "To the eastward of the town of Huntington and to the westward of Nesaquack, commonly called by the Indians Katazi-aniake and in English by the name of Crope Meadow ;" in another entry, "Crab iMeadow," by which last name the particular tract was known for many years. "Crope" and "Crab" are English equivalents for a species of grass called "finger-grass or wire-grass," and were obviously employed by the English to describe the kind of grass that distinguished the meadow -- ^certainly not as an equivalent of the Indian name, which was clearly that of a place at or near the head of Huntington Harbor, from which it was extended to the lands as a general locative. The several forms of the name may probably be correctly read from KeJiti, or its equivalent. Kehchi, "Chief, principal, greatest," and -amaiig, "Fishing-place" (-amuck, L. I.), literally "The greatest fishing-place." The orthography of 1638 is especially corrupt, and Ketawamnck, apparently the most nearly correct, the rule holding good in this, as in othe^- cases, that the very early forms are especially imperfect.

Nachaquatuck, the western boundary stream of Eaton's Neck, quoted as the name of Cold Spring, is translaited by Dr. Tooker from IVa'nashque-tiick, "The ending creek, because it was the end or boundary of the tract." "Called by the Indians Nackaquatol<, and by the English Cold Spring." (Huntington Patent, 1666.) Wanashque, "The tip or extremity of an}^hing."

98 INDIAN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

Opcutkontycke, now assigned to a brook entering Northfield Harbor, and primarily given as t^he name of a boundary stream (see Katawamake), seems to be a corruption of Ogkome (Acoom-), "On the other side," and -tuck, "A tidal stream or estuary." It was a place on the other side of the estuary. Aupauquack, the name of a creek in West Hampton, is entered, in 1665, Aupaucock and described as a boundary stream between the Shinnecock and the Unchechauge lands, "Either nation may cutt flags for their use on either side of the river w'ithout molestation." Also given as the name of a "Lily Pond" in East Hampton.