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

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tower, hill," etc. The highest hill in Westchester County bears the same name in Kakcotit, and Kaykuit is the name of a hill in Kingston, Ulster County. The tract to which the name was extended in Rocklriud County is described, "Commonly called by the Indians Kackyachtezveke, on a neck of land which runs under a great hill, bounded on the north by a creek called Sheamaweck or Peasqua." rlackyackawack is another orthograj, 'v. The name seems to be from Schach-achgeu-ackey, meaning ' Jiraight land," "Straight along," (Zeisb.) ; /. c. direct, as "A neck of land" -- "A pass between mountains," or, as the description reads, "A neck of land which runs under a great hill." Compare Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 48, 183, etc. Torne, the name of a high hill which forms a conspicuous object in the Ramapo \'alley, is from Dutch Torenherg, "A tower or turret, a high pointed hill, a pinnacle." (Prov. Eng.) The hill is claimed to have been the northwest boundmark of the Plaverstraw Patent. In recent times it has been applied to two elevations, the Little Torne, west of the Hudson, and the Great Torne, near the Hudson, south of Haverstraw. (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 46.) Cheesek=ook, Cheesek=okes, Cheesec=oks, Cheesquaki, are forms of the name given as that of a tract of "Upland and meadow," so described in Indian deed, 1702, and included in the Cheesek-ook Patent, covering parts of the present counties of Rockland and Orange.