■tition was by Samuel Bayarfd, wh'o then owned the land on boith sides of Wiehacken Creek, for a ferry charter covering the passage "Between the southernmost cliffs of Tappaen and New York Island, at a place called Wiehake," the landing-place of which was establisihed at or near the mouth of Awiehacken Creek just be'low what is now known as King's Point. Of the location generally Winfield (Hist.. Hudson Co., N. J.) wrote: "Before the iconoclastic hand of enterprise had touched it the whole region about was charming beyond description. Just south of the dueling ground was the wild ravine adown which leaped and laughed the Awiehacken. ImmediateHy above the dueling ground was King's Point looking boldly down upon the Hudson. From this iheight still opens as fair, as varied, as beautiful a scene as one dould wisih to see. The rocks rise almost perpindicularly to one hundred and fifty feet above the river. Under these heights, about twenty feet above the water, on a shelf about six feet wide and eleven paces long, reached by an almost inaccessible flight of steps, was the dueling ground." South of King's Point were the fanied Elysian Fields, at the southern extremity of which, under Castle Point, was Sibyl's Cave, a rocky cavern containing a fine spring of water. The place to which 'the name was applied in the deed of 1658 seems to have been an open tract between the streams named, presumably afield lying along the Hudson, from the description, "running back towards the woods," suggesting that it was from the Lenape radical Tmava, as Vv^ritten by Zeisberger in Tauzui-echen, "Open ;" as a noun, "Open or unobstructed space, clear land, without trees." Dropping the initial we 'have Auwi, Awie, of the early or'thography ; dropping A we have Wie and Wee, and from -echen we have -akan, -haken, -hawking, etc.