The somewhat poetic interpretation of the name, "Many ponds," is without warrant, nor does the name belong to a "Round pond," or to the stream, now the Ramapo except by extension to it. Apparently, by dia-

^ The territory in which the Pomptons claimed an interest included northern New Jersey as bounded on the north by a line drawn from Cochecton, Sullivan County, to the mouth of Tappan Creek on the Hudson, thence south to Sandy Hook, thence west to the Delaware, and thence north to Cochecton, lat. 41 deg. 40 min., as appears by treaty deed in Smith's hist, of New Jersey.

HUDSON S RIVER ON THE WEST. II5

lectic exchange of initials L and R, Rcine, Rama, or Romo becomes Lanu) from Laiiwivo (Zeisb.), "Downward, slanting, oblique," and -pogh, -puck, etc., is a compression of -apnghk {-puchk, German notation), meaning- "Rock." Lamozv-d puchk, by contraction and pronunciation, Ramcipuck, meaning "Slanting rock," an equivalent of Pimdpuchk, met in the district in Pemerpock, in 1674, denoting "Place or country of the slanting rock." ^ Ramapo River is supposed to have its head in Round Pond, in the northwest part of the town of Monroe, Orange County. It also received the overflow of eight other ponds. Ramapo Pass, beginning about a mile below Pierson's, is fourteen miles long. (See Pompton.) Wynokie, now so written as the name of a stream flowing to the Pequannock at Pompton, takes that name from a beautiful valley through which it passes, about thirteen miles northwest of Paterson. The stream is the outlet of Greenwood Lake and is entered on old maps as the Ringwood. The name is in several orthographies-- Wanaque, Wynogkee, Wynachkee, etc. It is from the root kee.) "Good, fine, pleasant," and -aki, land or place. (See Wynog- Win,