It is widely distributed. (See Paskack.) Assiskowachok or Assiskowacheck, the name of record as that of the fourth flat, is no doubt from Assiskeu, "Mud" -- Assiskewmighk-iik, "At (or on) a muddy place." Potic, the name of the fifth flat, is also of record Potick, Potatik, and Potateuck, probably an equivalent of Pozvntiicknk (Mass.), denoting, "Country about the falls." (Trumbull.) From the flat the name was extended to a hill and to a creek in the town of Athens. Hubbard, in his "History of Indian Wars," assigns the same name

to a place on the east side of Hudson's River. (See Pachquyak and Schaghticoke.) Ganasnix and Ganasenix, given as the name of a creek constituting the southern boundary of the Lockerman Patent (1686), seems to be an orthography of Kaniskek, which see. Waweiantepakook, Waweantepakoak, Wawantepekoak, are forms of a name given as tliat of "a hig'h round hill" near Catskill. The description reads : "A place on the northeast side of a brook called Kiskatamenakook, on the west side of a hill called Waweantepakoak." (Land Papers, 242.) The location has not been ascertained. Antpech (Antpek, Zeisb.), means "Head." In Mass. (Eliot), Piihkuk -- Muppukuk, "A head." Wawei is a reduplicative of Wai or Way; it means, "Many windings around," or deviations

'Dutch Inbocht, "In the bend," "bay," etc. "Great" was added as an identification of the particular bend spoken off.

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from a direct line. The name is sufficiently explained by the description, "On the west side of a hill," or a hill-side, but descriptive of a hill resembling a head -- "high, erect" -- with the accessory meaning of superiority. "Indian Head" is now applied to one of the peaks of the Catskills. The parts of the body were sometimes applied by the Indians to inanimate objects just as we apply them in English -- head of a cove, leg of a table, etc. (See Wawayanda.) Kiskatom, a village and a stream of water so called in Greene County, appears in two forms in original records, Kiskatammeeche and Kiskatamenakoak.