Trumbull wrote that Wehaiving "Seemed" to him as "most probably from Wehoak, Mohegan, arid -ing, Lenape, locative, 'At the end (of the Palisades)' " and in his interpretation violated his own rules of interpretation which require that translation of Indian names must be sought in the dialect spoken in the district where tlie name

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appears. The word for "End," in the dialect spoken here, was Wiqui. Zeisberger wrote Wiquiechiing, "End, point," which certainly does not appear in any form of the name. The Dr.'s translation issimpl}- worthless, as are several others that have been suggested. It is surprising that the Dr. should quote a Mohegan adjectival and attach to it a Lenape locative sufifix.

Espating {Hcspating, Staten Island deed) is claimed to' have been the Indian name of what is now known as Union Hill, in Jersey City, where, it is presumed, there was an Indian village. The name is from the root AsJip ( Usp, Mass. ; Esp, Lenape ; Ishp, Chip.), "High,"' and -ink, locative, "At or on a high place." From the same root Is'hpat-ink. Hespating. (O'Callaghan.) See Ashpetong. Siskakes, now Secaucus, is written as the name of a tract on Hackensack meadows, from which it was extended to Snake Hill. It is from Sikkakaskeg, meaning "Salt sedge marsh." (Gerard.) The Dutch found snakes on Snake Hill and called it Slangberg, literally, "Snake Hill." Passaic is a modern orthography of Pasaeck (Unami -Lenape), German notation, signifying "Vale or valley." Zeisberger wrote Fachsdjcck in the Minsi dialect. The valley gave name to the stream. In Rockland County it has been corrupted to Paskack, Pasqueck, etc.