Pochuck is from a generic meaning "A recess or corner." It is met in several places. (See Wawayanda and Pochuck.) Gentge=kamike, "A field appropriated for holding dances," may reasonably have been the Indian name of the plateau adjoining the rocky point, at the head of Newburgh Bay, whicli, from very early times, has been known as The Dans Kamer (Dance Qiamber), a designation which appears of record first in a Journal by David Pietersen de Vries of a trip made by him in his sloop from Fort Amsterdam to Fort Orange, in 1639, who wrote, under date of April 15: "At nig'ht came by the Dans Kamer, where there was a party of Indians, who were very riotous, seeking only mischief ; so we were on our guard." Obviously the place was then as well known as a landmark as was Esopus (Kingston), and may safely be claimed as having received its Dutch name from the earliest Dutch navigators, from whom it has been handed down not only as "The Dans Kamer," but as "f Duivel's Dans Kamer," the latter presumably designative of the fearful orgies which were held there familiarly known as "Devil worship." During the Esopus War of 1663, Lieut. Couwenhoven, who was lying with his sloop opposite the Dans Kamer, wrote, under date of August 14th, that "the Indians thereabout on the river side" made "a great uproar every night, firing guns and Kintecaying, so that the woods rang again." There can be no doubt from the records that the plateau was an established place for holding the many dances of the Indians. The word Kinte is a form of Gentge (Zeisb.), meaning "dance." Its root is Kanti, a verbal, meaning "To sing." Gentgeen, "To dance" (Zeisb.), Gcnf Keh'n (Heck.), comes down in the local Dutch records Kinticka, Kinte-Kaye, Kintecaiv, Kintekaying (dancing), and has found a resting place in the English word Canticoy, "A social dance." Dancing was eminently a feature among the Indians.