The exposed surface of the precipice is marked by strata in the conglomerate as primarily laid down. The entire district is a region of split rocks. Verkerde Kill takes that name from Dutch rerkeerd, meaning "Wrong, bad, angry, turbulent," etc. It is the outlet of Meretange Pond near Sam's Point. It flows from the pond to the falls and from the falls at nearly a right angle over a series of cascades aggregating in all a fall of two hundred and forty feet. The falls are in the town of Gardiner, Ulster County. (See Aioskawasting.) The lands granted to Bruyn included the "tract "Known by the Indian name of Pacanasink," now m the town of Shawongunk. and also a tract "Known bv the Indian name of Shensechonck," now in the tdwn of Crawford, Orange County. The latter seems to have been a parcel of level upland. Itwas about one mile to the southward of the stream.

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Alaskayering, entered on Sauthier's map of 1774, as the name of the south part of the S'hawongunk: range, was conferred by the Enghsh, possibly as a suhsbitute for Aioskawasting. The first word is heard in Alaska, which is said, on competent authority, to mean, "The high bald rocks"; with locative -ing, "At (or on) the high bald rocks." This interpretation is a literal description of the hill, and Aioskawasting may have the same meaning, although those who wrote the former may not have had a thought about the latter.^ (See Pitkiskaker.) Achsinink, quoted by the late Rev. Charles Soott, D. D., from local records probably, as the name of Shawongunk Kill, is an apheresis apparently of Pach-achsiln-ink, "At (or on) a place of split stones." Many of the split rocks thrown off from the mountain lie in the bed of the stream, in places utilized for crossing.