N, Y., xiii, 3.) The Indian name, Arisheck or Aresseck, is so badly corrupted that the original cannot be satisfactorily detected, but, by exchanging n for r, and adding the initial K, we would have Kaniskeck, "A long grassy marsh or meadow." Hoboken, now so written -- Hohocan-Hacking, July, 1630; Hobokan-Hacking, Nov. 1630; Hohokina, 1635; Hohocken, 1643; Hohoken, iG/i^y ; Hohuck and Harhoken, 1655-6 -- ^appears of record first in the Indian deed to Michael Pauw, July 12, 1630, negotiated by the Director-general and Council of New Netherland, and therein by them stated, "By us called Hobocan-Hacking." Primarily it was applied to the low promontory^ below Castle Point,^ bounded, recites the deed, on the south by the "land Ahasimus and Aressick." On ancient charts Aressick and Hoboken-Hacking are represented as two long necks of land or points separated by a cove on the river front now filled in, both points being called hooks. In records it was called an island, and later as "A neck of land almost an island, called Hobuk," * * * "extending on the south side to Ahasimus ; eastward to the river MauritU'S, and on the west side surrounded by a valley or morass through which the boundary can be seen with sufficient clearness." (Winfield's Hist. Hudson Co. ; Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 2, 3, 4.) In "Free-

^tion-- Ana hill. ancient view of the shore-line represents it as a considerable eleva- * Castle Point is just below Wehawken Cove in which Hudson is supposed to have anchored his ship in 1609. In Juet's Journal this land is described as "beautiful" and the cliff as of "the color of white green, as though it was either a copper or silver mine." It has long been a noted resort for mineralogists.