It is sufficient to say here that the Indians lost the lands in controversy and a much larger territory. Interpretation of the name can only be made conjecturally. William R. Gerard wrote me: "I think Atkarkarton simply disguises Atuk-ak-aten, meaning 'Deerhill,' from Atnk, 'Deer' ; ak, plural, and aten, 'hill' The rs in the name ■do not mean anything ; they simply indicate that the a's wliioh precede them were nasal." The Delaware word for "deer" is Achtuch. Dr. Schoolcraft wrote the tradition that the first deers were the hunters of men.

Wildwijk, Dutch -- Wiltzvyck, modern -- the name given by Governor Stuyvesant, in 1650, to the palisaded village which later became Kingston, and then and later called Sopus, is a composition of Dutch JVild, meaning "Wild, savage," and Wijk, "Retreat, refuge, quarter" ; constructively, "A village, fort or refuge from the savages." The claim that the place was so called by Stuyvesant as an acknowledgment of the fact that the land was a gift from the Indians, isa figment. The English came in possession, in 1664, and,

Hudson's river on the west. i6i

in 1669/ changed the early name to Rinjjston. The Dutch recovered possession in 1673, and changed the name to Swanendale, and the English restored Kingston in 1674. (See Atkarkarton.) Nanoseck, Manoseck, forms of the. name of a small island in Rondout Creek, so "called by the Indians" says the record, may be from Natick Nohoosik, "Pointed or tapering." The Dutch called it "Little Cupper's Island." Clipper, "One w'ho applies a cupping glass." Another island in the same stream, was "called by the Indians Assinke," that is "Stony land" or place. (See Mattassink.) An'other island was called by the Dutch Slypsten Eiland, that is, "Whetstone Island" ; probably from the quality of the stone found on it.