It is a place full of history, full of poetry, full of the footprints of

^ The monosyllable SJiaw or ScJiaiv. radical Scha, means "Side, edge, border, shore," etc. S chaiizvunnp pcquc , "On the shore of the lake." Endatacht-scIiaK'ungc, "At the narrows where the hill comes close to the river." (Heck.) Scliajazvonge, "Hill-side" (Zeisb.), from which Schawong-unk, "On the hill-side," or at the side of the hill, the precise bound of the name cannot be stated.

■ Doc. Hist. N. Y., iv, 71, yz, et. scq. Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii. 272, 326. ^ Authorities quoted and paper b}- Rev. Charles Scott, D. D., in "Proceedings Ulster Co. Hist. Soc."

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the aboriginal lords, "Further down the creek," says the narrative, '"'several large wigwams stood, w^hich we also burned, and divers maize fields which we also destroyed." On the sites of same of these wigwams fine specimens of Indian pottery and stone vessels and implements have been found, as well as many_arrowpoints of flint. Memorasink, Kahogh, Gatawanuk, and Ghittatawagh, names handed down in the Indian deed to Governor Dongan in 1684, have no other record, nor were they ever specifically located. The lands conveyed to him extended from the Shawangunk range to the Hudson, bounded on the north by the line of the Paltz Patent, and south by a line drawn from about the Dans Kamer. Ghittatazvagh is probably from Kitchi. "Great, strong," etc., and Towatazvik, "Wilderness"-- the great wilderness, or uninhabited district. Gatawanuk seems to be from Kitchi, "Strong," -aivan, impersonal verb termination, and -iik, locative, and to describe a place on a strong current or flowing stream. The same name seems to appear in Kitchawan, now Croton River. It may have located lands on the Wallkill. Nescotack, a certain place so called in the Dongan deed of 1684, is referred to in connection with Shawongunk.