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.

Ossangwak is written on Povvnal's map as the name of what is known as the Great Binnenvvater (Dutch, "Inland water") in the town of Lloyd. The orthography disguises the original, which may have been a pronunciation of Achsiin (Minsi), "Stone," as in Oistonzvakiii, read by Reichel, "A high rock," or rocky hill. Perhaps the name referred to the rocky bluff which bounds the Hudson there, immediately west of which die lake is situated. Esopus -- so written on Carte Figurative of 1614-16, and also by De Laet in 1624-5 ; Sopns, contemporaneously ; Sypoits, Rev. Megapolensis, 1657, is from Sepims (Natick), "A brook"; in Delaware, Sipoes (Zeisberger). It is from Sepn, "River," and -es, "small." On the Carte Figurative it is written on the east side of the river near a stream north of Wappingers' Creek, as it may have been legitimately, but in 1623 it came to be located permanently at what is now Rondout Creek, from -which it was extended to several streams/ to the Dutch settlement now Kingston, to the resident Indians, and to a large district of country. The chirographer of 1614-16 seems to have added the initial E from the uncertain sound of the initial S, and later scribes further corrupted it to the Greek and Latin 7E. (See Waronawanka.) Waronawanka, Carte Figuarative 1614-16 -- VVarraivaniiankoncks, Wassenaer, 1621-5 ; Warranmvankongs, De Laet, 1621-5, and Waranazvankcougys, 1633 ; Waranmvankongs, Van der Donck, 1656; Waerinneivongh, local, 1677 -- is located on the Carte Fig-