The name seems to have been that of a bend in the river at some point in the vicinity of Tuxedo Pond to which it was extended from a certain bend or bends in the stream. A modern interpretation from F'.tuksit, "Round foot," is of no merit except in its first word. It was the metaphorical name, among the Delawares, of the v/olf. It would be a misnomer applied to either a river or a pond. Scpo is generic for a long river. (See Esopus.) Mombasha, Mombashes, etc., the name of a small lake in Southfield, Orange County, is presumed to be a corruption of M'biisses (Zeisb.), "Small lake or pond," "Small water-place." The apostrop'he indicates a sound produced with the lips closed, readily pronouncing o(Mom). Charles Clinton, in his survey of the Cheesec- 00k Patent in 1735, wrote Mount-Basha. Mombasa is an Arabic name for a coral island on the east coast of Africa. It may have been introduced here as the sound of the Indian name. Wesegrorap, Wesegroraep, Wassagroras, given as the name of "A barren plain," in the Kakiate Patent, is probably from Wisachgan, "Ijitter," sad, distressing, pitiable. Ziesberger WTote, "Wisachgak, Black oak," the bark of which is bitter and astringent. A black oak tree on "the west-southwest side" of the plain may have given name to the plain. Narranshaw, Nanaschunck, etc., a place so called in the Kakiate Patent boundary, is probably a corruption of Van der Donck's Narrntschocn, "A promontory" or high point. (See Nyack-on-the- Hudson.) Kakiate, the name of patented lands in Rockland County, is from Dutch Kijknit, meaning "Look out," or "Place of observation, as a