The prefix, Aioska, cannot be dropped and the name have a meaning, and the adjectival, Awoss, cannot be used as a substantive and followed by the locative -ing, "at, on," etc. Awoss means "Beyond," surely, but must be followed by a substantive telling what it is that is "beyond." The particular features of the Shawongunk range covered by the boundary line of the deed are "The Traps," a cleft which divides the range a short distance south of Mohunk, and Sam's Point,^ about nine miles south of Mohunk. The latter stands out very conspicuously, its general surface covered by perpendicular rocks from^ one hundred to two hundred and fifty feet high, the point itself crowned by a wall of rock which rises 2200 feet above the valley below. Peakadasank, so written in Indian deed to Governor Dongan in 1684 -- Pachajmsiuck in patent to Jacob Bruyn, 1719; Peckanasinck, Pachanassinck, etc. -- is given as the name of a stream bounding a tract of land, the Dongan deed descriiption reading : "Thence southwesterly all along said hills and the river Peakadasank to a

^ Sam's Point is in the town of Wawarsing. about seven miles south of the village of EUenville and about nine miles south of Mohunk or Paltz Point. It is the highest point on the Shawongunk range in New York State. Its name is from Samuel Gonsaulus, who owned the tract. Gertruyd's Nose, the name of another point, was so called from the fancied resemblance of its shadow to the nose of Mrs. Gertrude, wife of Jacobus Bruyn, who owned the tract. The pass, cleft or clove known as "The Traps," was so called from the supposed character of the rock which it divides. The rock, however, is not Trappean. The pass is 650 feet wide and runs through the entire range.