Peram-sepus also appears as Wieramius, suggesting that Pera, Para, Wara, and Wiera were written as equivalemt sounds, from the root IVil {Willi, Winne, Wirri, Waure), meaning, "Good, fine, pleasant," etc. The suffix varies, Sepiis meaning "Brook"; Pcake (-/^ei^^)," Water-place," and Anes, "Small stieam," or, substantially, Septis, which, by the prefix Ware, was proniounccd "A fine stream," or place of water. Monsey, a village in Rockland County, takes that name from an Indian resident who was known by his tribal name, Monsey -- "the Monseys, Minsis, or Minisinks." Mahway, Mawayway, Mawawier, etc., a stream and place now Mahway, N. J., was primarily applied to a place described: "An Indian field called May way way, just over the north side of a small red hill cailled Mainatanung." The stream, on an old survey, is marked as flowing south to the Ramapo from a point west of Cheesek-ook Mountain. The name is probabh- from Mawhvi (Zeisb.), "Assembly," w'here streams or paths, or boundaries, meet or come together. (See Mahequa.)

* Called "Saddle River," probably, from Richard Saddler, a purchaser of lands from the Indians in 1674. (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 478.)

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Mainaiianung, Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, and MaimUing in N. J. Records, given as the name of "A small red hill" (see Mahway), does not describe a "Red hill," hut a place "at" a small hill -- Minattinney-unk. The suffixed locative, -uiik, seems to have been generally used in connectioii with the names of hills. Pompton -- Ponton, East N. J. Records, 1695 ; Pompeton, Pumpton, Pompeto)!, N. Y. Records -- now preserved in Pompton as the name of a village at the junction of the Pequannock, the Wynokie, and the Ramapo, and coutinued as the name of the united stream south of Pompton Village to its junction with the Passaic, and also as the name of a town in Passaic County, N.