should "have a proportion of the good land upon the said river" -- obviously a section of low land or meadow, described by the name of a place thereon called Maskcck (Zeisb.), meaning "Swamp, bog" ; Maskeht (Eliot), "Grass." The radical is ask, "green," raw, immature." The suffix -cghs represents an intensive form of the guttural formative, which the German missionaries softened to -ech and -ck, and the English to -sli, and is frequently met in X. Heckewelder wrote that the original sound was that of the Greek X, hence Maskex and x in Ooxsackie. Maschaheneer, the name given ■by Mott, is not satisfactorily translatable. Pitkiskaker and Aioskawasting appear in deed from the Esopus Indians to Governor Dongan, in 1684, as the names of divisions of what are now known as the Shawongunk Mountains south of Mohunk or Paltz Point. The deed description reads : "Extending from the Paltz," i. e. from the southeast boundmark of the Paltz Patent on the Hudson, now known as Blue Point (see Magaat- Ramis), south "along the river to the lands of the Indians at Murderers' Kill, thence west to die foot of the high hills called Pitkiskaker and Aioskawasting, thence southwesterly all along the said hills and the river called Peakadasink to a water-pond lying upon said hills called Meretange." ^ Apparently the general boundaries were the line of the Paltz Patent on the north, the Hudson on the east, a line from "about the Dancing Chamber" on the Hudson to Sam's Point on the Shawongunk range on the southwest, and on the west by that range and the river Peakadasank. The Peaka-