Twischsawkin is quoted as the name of the Wallkill at some place in New Jerse3^ On Sauthier's miap it stands wihere two small ponds are represented and seems to have reference to the outlet. Twisch may be an equivalent of TiscJi, "Strong," and Sawkin may be an equivalent of Heckewelder's Sancon, "Outle't," or mouth of a river, pond, etc. Wallkill, the name of the stream as now written, is an anglicism of Dutch Waal, "Haven, gulf, depth,"' etc., and Kil, "Ohannel" or water-course. It is the name of an arm of the Rhine in the Netherlands, and was transferred here by the Huguenots who located in New Paltz. (See Wawayanda.) Shawangunk, the name of a town, a stream of water, and a range of hills in Ulster County, was that of a specific place from which it was extended. It is of record in many orthographies,, the first in 1684, of a place called Chauwanghungh;^ in deed from the Indians to Governor Dongan, in the same year, Chawangon,^ and Chauzvangung in 1686,^ later forms running to variants of Shawangnnk. The locative is made specific in a grant to Thomas Lloyd in 1687;* in a grant to Severeign Tenhout in 1702,^ and iiij ^ "Land lying about six or seven miles beyond ye Town where ye Walloons dwell, upon ye same creek; ye name of ye place is Chauwanghungh and'^ Nescotack, two small parcels of land lying together." (N. Y. Land Papers, 29, 30.) ' "Comprehending all those lands, meadows and woods called Nescotack, Chawangon, to Memorasink, Kakogh, Getawanuck and Ghittatawah." (Deed' Gov. Dongan.) '"Beginning on the east side of the river (now Wallkill), and at the south end of a small island in the river, at the mouth of the river Chauwangung,. in the County of Ulster, laid out for James Graham and John Delaval." (N.