Ralph LeFever, editor of the "New Paltz Independent," from personal knowledge. Tawarataque was the name of this clove. It embodies the root IValak prefixed by the radical Tau or Tazv, meaning "Open," as an open space, a hollow, a clove, an open field, etc., suffixed by the verb termination -aque, meaning "Place," or -dke as Zeisberger wrote in Wochitdke, "Upon the house." The reading in Tawarataque is, "Where there is an open space" ; i. e., the clove.^ The late Hon. Edward Elting, of New Paltz, wrote me : "The flat rock which Surveyor Graham marked as the bound, lies on the east side of the depression of the Shawongunk Mountain Range leading northwesterly from Mohunk, at the south end of the clove known as Mud Hook, near the boundary line between New Paltz and Rosendale, say

^ The adjectival formative -alagat, or -aragat, enters into the composition of several words denoting "Hole," or "Open space," as Taw-dlachg-at, "Open space," Sag-dlachg-at, "So deep the hole." The verb substantive suffix -aque, or -akc (git the sound of A'), meaning "Place," is entirely proper as a substitute for the verbal termination -at.

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about half a mile west of the Wallkill \^alley R. R. station at Rosendale. I think, but am not certain, that the rock can be seen as you pass on the railroad. It is of the character known as Esopus Millstone, a white or gray conglomerate. I cannot say that it bears the Surveyor's inscription." It is not often that four boundmarks are met that stand out with the distinctness of those of the Paltz Patent, or that are clothed with deeper interest as geological features, or that preserve more distinctly the geographical landmarks of the aboriginal people.