Menisak=cungue, so written in Indian deed to De Hart in 1666, and also in deed from De Hart to Johannes Minnie in 1695, is written Amisconge on Pownal's map, as the name of a stream in the town of Haverstraw. As De Hart was the first purchaser of lands at Haverstraw, the name could not have been from that of a later owner, as locally supposed. Pownal's orthography suggests that the original was Ommissak-kontu, Mass., "Where Alewives or small fishes are abundant." The locative was at the mouth of the stream at Grassy Point.- Minnie's Falls, a creek so known, no doubt, took that name from Johannes IVIinnie. On some maps it is called Florus'' Falls, from Florus Crom, an early settler. An unlocated place on the stream was called " The Devil's Horse Race." Mahequa and Mawewier are forms of the name of a small stream which constitutes one of the boundaries of what is known as Welch's Island. They are from the root Mawe, "Meeting," Mawewi, "Assembly" (Zeisb.), i. e. "Brought together," as "Where paths or streams or boundaries come together." The reference may have been to the place where the stream unites with Demarest's Kill, as shown on a map of survey in "History of Rockland County."' Welch's Island was so called from its enclosure by streams and a marsh. (See Mattaconga and Mahway.)

* The equivalent Mass. word is paug, "Where water is," or ''Place of water." (Trumbull.) Quassa-paug or Quas-paug, is the largest lake in Woodbury, Ct. Dr. Trumbull failed to detect the derivative of Quas. but suggested. Kiche, "Great." Probably a satisfactory interpretation will be found in Kussiik, "High." (See Quassaick.) ^ Kontii, an abundance verb, is sometimes written contce, easily corrupted to cungue. Dutch Conge means "Discharge," the tail-race of a mill, or a strong, swift current.