Adriaen Block, who, having lost his vessel by burning at Manhattan, constructed here another which he called the "Onrust" or "Restless," in 1614. It was the first vessel constructed by Europeans in New York waters. In this vessel Block made extended surveys of Hudson's River, the Connecticut, the Sound, etc. Acquiring from his residence among them a knowledge of the Connecticut coast dialects, he wrote the names of tribes on the Hudson in that dialect. Reference is made

' Perhaps explained by the entry, " Roberts' Island, situate near Manhansack. (Records, Town of East-Hampton.)

INDIAN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

to wliat is better known as the "Carte Figurative of 1614-16." There is no better evidence that this Figurative was from Block's chart than its presumed date and the orthographies of the names written on it.

Hudson's River on the West. Neversink, now so written as the name of the hills on the south side of the lower or Raritan Bay, is written Neiiversin by Van der Donck, Neysziiesiuck by Van Tienhoven, Nezvasons by Ogilby, 1671, and more generally in early records Naver, Neuver, Newe, and Naosbink. The original was no doubt the Lenape Newds-ink, "At the point, comer, or promontory." The root A''^ (English Nai), means, "To come to a point," "To form a point," or, as rendered by Dr. Trumbull, "A corner, angle or point," Naiag. Dr. Schoolcraft's translation, "Between waters," and Dr. O'Callaghan's "A stream between hills," are incorrect, as can be abundantly proved. (See Nyack.) Perth Araboy, at the mouth of Raritan River, is in part, from James, Earl of Perth, Lord High Chancellor of Scotland, who found'ed a se'ttlement there, and part from Amhoy (English Ambo), meaning any rising or stage, a hill or any elevation. A writer in 1684 notes : "Where the town of Perth is now building is on a shelf of land rising twenty, thirty and forty feet." Smith (Hist. of New Jersey) wrote : "Ambo, in Indian, 'A point ;' " but there is no such word as Ambo, meaning "A point," in any Indian dialect, Heckewelder's interpretation : "Ompoge, from which Aniboy IS derived, and also Emboli, means 'A bottle,' or a place resembling a bottle," is equally erroneous, althoug'h Emboli may easily have been an Indian pronunciation of xA.mboy.