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. The Indian deed of 165 1 reads, "From the Raritan Point, called Ompoge/' which may be read from Ompae, Alg. generic, "Standing or upright," of which Amboy, English, is a fair interpretation. Raritangs (Van Tienhoven), Rariton (Van der Donck), Raretans, Raritanoos, Nanakans, etc., a stream flowing to tide-water west of Staten Island, extended to the Indian sub-tribal organization

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which occupied the Raritan Valley, is from the radical Nai, "A point," as in Naragan, Naraticon, Narrangansett, Nanakan, Nahican, etc., fairly traced by Dr. Trumbull in an analysis of Narragansett, and apparently oonclusively established in Nanakan and Narratschcen on the Hu'dson, the Vei'drietig Hoek, or "Tedious Point," of Dutch notation, wihere, after several forms it culminates in Naz'ish. Lindstrom's Naratic-on, on the lower Delaware, was probably Cape May, and an equivalent substantially of the New England Nayantiikq-iit, "A point on a tidal river," and Raritan was the point of the peninsulla which the clan occupied terminating on Raritan Bay, where, probably, the name was first met by Dutch navigators. The dialectic exchange o'f N and R, and of the surd tmutes k and t are clear in comparing Nanakan on. the Hudson, Naratic-on on the Delaware, and Raritan on the Raritan. Van der Donck's map locates the clan bearing the name in four villages at and above the junction of a branch of the stream at New Brunswick, N.