If the word was -oten it would refer to the trading post or town, as in "Otcniiik, in the town" (Hecke welder), and, with the pre'fix Mamak (Mamach, German notation), root Mach, "evil, bad, naughty" {Mamak, iterative), would describe something that was very bad in the town ; but, if the word was -atin, "Hill or mountain," the name would refer to a place that was at or on a very bad hill. Presumably the hill was the objective feature, the settlement being at or near the Sandberg. There is nothing in the name meaning plain or valley, nor anything "wonderful" about it. Among other features on the ancient path was the wigwam of Tautapau, "a medicine man," so entered in a patent to Jacob Rutzen in 1713. Tautapau (Taupowaw, Powaw), "A priest or medicine man," literally, "A wise speaker."

Kau=na=ong=ga, "Two wings," is said to have been the name of White Lake, Sullivan County, the form of the lake being that of a pair of wings expanded, according to the late Alfred B. Street, the poet-historian, who embalmed the lake in verse years before it became noted as a fashionable resort. (See Kong-hong-amok.)

' Indian Hunting-houses were met in all parts of the country. They were generally temporary huts, but in some cases became permanent. (See Cochecton.)

'Fontaine is French -- "A spring of water issuing from the earth." The stream flowing from the spring is met in local history as Fantine Kill.

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"Where the twin branches of the Delaware Glide into one, and in their language call'd Chihockcn, or "the meeting of the floods" ;^ the "Willemoc," " and "The Falls of the Mongaup," are also among Street's poetical productions. Shawanoesberg was conferred on a hill in the present town of Mamakating, commemorative of a village of the Shawanoes who settled here in 1694 on invitation of the Minisinks. (Council Minutes, Sept. 14, 1692.) Their council-house is said to have been on the summit of the hill.