The substantival is Pootapaug, Mass., "A bog." The adjectival may stand for Mass, "Great," or Matt, derogative. Manowtassquott, or Manowtatassquott, is assigned to Blue Point, in Great South Bay, town of Brookhaven. The record reads : "Bounded easterly by a brook or river to tihe westward of a point called the Blue Point, known by the Indian name of Manowtatassquott." The name belongs to a place where Menhaden abounded -- Manowka-tuck-ut -- from wliich ecjctended to the point.

lOO INDIAN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

Ochabacowesuck, given as the name of what is now called Pine Neck, stands for Acqiicbacoives-uck, meaning, "On this side of the small pines." Narraganset. Coivawes-nck, "At the young pine place," or "Smiall-pine place." Koozva, EHo^t ; -es, diminutive ; -lick, locative. The name of the tree was from its pointed leaves ; Koiis, a thorn or briar, or "having a siharp point." (Trumbull.) Acqneh, "This side." Ronkonkoma, Raconkamuck, Wonkonkoamaiig, Wonkongamnck, Wonkkeconiaug, Raconkcmnake, ""A fres'h pond, about the middle of Long Island." (Smithtown Records.) "IVoiikkecomaug signifying crooked pood." (Indian deed of 1720.) Obviously from Wonkun, "Bent," and -komuk, "Place, limited or enclosed." Interpretation from Wonkon'ous, "Fence," and -amaug, "Fishingplaice" (Tooker), "has no other standing than fhat there was a fence of lopped trees terminating at the pond. The namie, however, was in place before the fence was made. The explanation in the Indian deed of 1720 cannot be disputed. The pond divides the towns of Islip, Smithtown, Se'tauket, and Patchoug. Potunk, a neck of land on S'hinnecock Bay, is written Potuncke in Smithtown Records, in 1662. "A swamp at Potunk," is another entry. Dr. Trumbull quoted it as a form of Po'dunk, Conn., which is of primary record, "Called Potaecke," and given as the name of a "brook or river." In Brookfield, Mass., a brook bearing the name is said to have been so called "from a tract of meadow adjoining." In Washington County, N.