Gatschet, of the Bureau of Ethnology, wrote me : "If the Warana-wan-ka lived on a bay or cove of Hudson's River, their name is certainly from Walina, which means ' hollowing, concave site,' and 'cove, bay,' in several eastern languages. A good parallel are the Wawenocks of S. W. Maine, now living at St. Francis, who call themselves Walinaki, or those living on a cove -- 'cove dwellers' -- in referring to their old home on the Atlantic coast near Portland. In the Micmac (N. S.) dialect Walini is ' bay, cove,' and even the large Bay of Fundy is called so. The meaning of k or ka is not clear, but ong, in the later forms, is the locative 'at, on, upon.' " It is safe to say that at either the Dans Kamer, Low Point, or Kingston Point, the clan would have been seated on a bay, cove^ recess or indentation shaped like a bay, and it is also safe to say that Warona and Walinu may be read as equivalents, the former in the local dialect, and the latter in the Eastern, and that its general meaning is "Concave, hollowing site.'' Zeis-berger wrote / instead of r in the Minsi-Lenape, hence IVoalac, "A hollow or excavation" ;

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JVaJoh, "A cove"; Walpecat, ''Very deep water." The dialectic r prevails pretty generally on the Hudson and on the Upper Delaware. On the latter, near Port Jervis, is met of record JVarinsags-kanieck, which is surely the equivalent of IValina-ask-kameck, "A hollowing or concave site, a meadow or field." It was written by Arent Schuyler, the noted interpreter, as the name of a field which he described as "A meadow or vly." Vly is a contraction of Dutch Vallei, meaning "A hollow or depression in which water stands in the rainy season and is dry at other times," hence ''hollowing." Ask (generic), meaning "Green, raw," is the radical of words meaning "meadow," "marsh," etc., and -kameck stands for an enclosed field, or place having definite boundaries as a hollow.