Keht-hanne, Heckewelder -- Kittan, Zeisberger -- "The principal or greatest stream," i. e. of the country through which it passes, was the generic name of the Delaware River, and Lcnapezvihittnck, "The river or stream of the Lenape," its specific name, more especially referring to the stream where its waters are affected by tidal currents. In the Minisink country it was known as MiiiisUiks River, or "River of the Minisinks." At the Lehigh junction the main stream was called the East Branch and the Lehigh the West Branch (Sauthier's map), but above that point the main stream was known as the West Branch to its head in Utsyantha^ Lake, on the north-

* Also written Oteseontio and claimed as the name of a spring. The lake is a small body of water lying 1,800 feet above tide level, in the town of Jefferson, Scholiare County. It is usually quoted as the head of the West Branch of Delaware River.

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east line of Delaware County, N. Y., where it was known as the Mohawk's Branch. It forms the southwestern boundary of the State from nearl}- its head to Port Jervis, Orange County, Where it enters or becomes the western boundary of New Jersey. At Hancock, Delaware County, it receives the waters of what was called by the Indians the Paghkataghan, and by the English the East Branch. The West Branch was here known to the Indians as the

Namacs-sipu and its equivalent Lamas-scpos, or "Fish River," by Europeans, Fish-Kill, "Because," says an affidavit of 1785, "There was great numbers of Maskunamack (that is Bass) and Ginvam (that is Shad)^ went up that branch at Shokan, and but few or none went up the East [Paghkataghan] Branch." - In the course of time the East or Paghkataghan^ Branch became known as the Papagonck from a place so called.