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.

Io8 INDIAN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

doms and Exemptions," 1635 • "^"t every one is notified that the Company reserves, unto itself the Island Manhates ; Fort Orange, with the lands and islands appertaining thereto ; Staten Island ; the land of Achassemes, Arassick and Hobokina." The West India Company purchased the latter lands from Michael Pauw in 1638-9, and leased and sold >in three parcels as stated in the Pauw deeds. The first settlement of the parcel called by the Dutch Hobocan-Hacking is located by Whitehead (Hist. East N. J.) immediately north of Hobokan Kill and called Hobuk. Smith, in his "History of New Jersey," wrote Hobuck, and stated that it was a plantation "owned by a Dutch merchant who in the Indian wars, had his wife, children and servants murdered by the Indians." In a narrative of events occurring in 1655, it is written: "Presently we saw the house on Harboken in flames. This done the whole Pavonia was immediately in flames." ^ (Col. Hist. N. Y., xii, 98.) The deed stateuTent, "By us named," is explicit, and obviously impHes that the terms in the name were Dutch and not Indian, and Dutch they surely were. Dr. A. S. Gatschet, of the Bureau of Ethnology, wrote me: "Hoboken, called after a village on the river Scheldt, a few miles below Antwerp," and after a high elevation on its north side.