N. ^ Before entering New York Harbor, Hudson anchored his ship below the Narrows and sent out an exploring party in a boat, who entered the Narrows and ascended as far as Bergen Point, where they encountered a second channel which they explored as far as Newark Baj^ The place where the second channel was met they called " The Kils," or channels, and so it has remained -- incorrectly " Kills." The Narrows they called Col, a pass or defile, or mountain-pass, hence Kil van Col, channel of the Narrow Pass, and hence Achtcr Col, a place behind the narrow channel. " Those [Indians] of Hackingsack, otherwise called Achter Col." (Journal of New Neth., 1641-47, Doc. Hist. N. Y., iv, 9.) * * "Whether the Indians would sell us the hook of land behind the Kil van Col." (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 280.) Achter Col became a general name for all that section of New Jersey. Kill and Kidl are corruptions of Col.. Arthur Kull is now applied to Newark Bay. ' Heckewelder wrote " Okhncquaii. Woakhucquoan, or short Hiicqiian for the modern Occoqiian. the name of a river in Virginia, and remarked, 'All these names signify a hook.'" (Trumbull.) Rev. Thomas Campanus (Holm), who was chaplain to the Swedish settlements on the Delaware, 1642-9, and who collected a vocabulary, wrote Hdckiing (ueiig), "Hook." This sound of the word may have led the Dutch to adopt Hackingh as an orthography -- modern Haking, " Hooking," incurved as a hook. is ^anJasper arm ofDankers and land the main Peteron Sluyter wrote the west side inoftheir the Journal : "Gamaenapaen North River, beginning at Constable's Hook, directly opposite to Staten Island, from which it is separated by the Kil van Kol. It is almost an hour broad, but has large salt meadows or marshes on the Kil van Kol.