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Home / Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard. / Passage

The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea

Lossing, Benson John. The Hudson, from the Wilderness to the Sea. New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1866. Internet Archive identifier: hudsonfromwilder00lossi. Illustrated travel-history of the Hudson River valley by the writer and artist Benson J. Lossing, whose chapter on Teller's / Croton Point is a primary source for Senasqua place-name etymology, Sarah Teller's 1682 purchase, and the Underhill vineyard. 309 words

On account of this the Dutch settlers called the place Krom EUehoge, or Crooked Elbow. As is frequently the case

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along the Hudson, the present name is a compound of Dutch and English, and is called Crom Elbow.

Six miles below Hyde Park is the large rural city of Poughkeepsic, containing about 17,000 inhabitants. The name is a modification of the Mohegan word, Apo-keep-sinclc,^' signifying " safe and pleasant harbour." Between two rocky bluffs was a sheltered bay (now filled with wharves),

POUGHKEEPSIK, FROM LEWISBIEG.

into the upper part of which leaped, in rapids and cascades, the Winnakee, called Pall Kill by the Dutch. The northerly bluff was called by the

* The name of this cit}', as found in records aud on maps, exhibits a most curious specimen of orthographic caprice, it being spelt in forty-two different ways, as follows :-- Pakeepsie, Pacapsey, Pakepsey, Paughkepsie, Pecapesy, Pecapsy, Pecapshe, Pochkeepsinck, Poeghkeepsing, Poeghkeeksingk, Poeghkeepsink, Pochkeepsey, Pochkeepsen, Pochkeepsy, Pochkepsen, Pochkj'phsingh, Pockeepsy, Pockepseick, Pockepseng, Pokepsing, Poglikeepsie, Poghkeepsinck, Poghkeepsing, Poglikepse, Poglikepsen, Poglikeepsink, Poglikeepson, Poghkeepse, Pukeepsigh, Pokeepsingh, Pokeepsink, Pokeepsy, Pokepsinek, Pokkepsen, Pouglikeepsey, Poukeepsie, Poukeepsy, Pikipsi, Picipsi, Pokepsie, Pokeepsie, Poughkeepsie.

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Dutch Slange Klippe, or Snake or Adder CliflF, because of the venomous serpents which were abundant there in the olden time. The southern bluff bears the name of Call Eock, it having been a place from which the settlers called to the captains of sloops or single-masted vessels, when passage in them was desired. "With this bay, or " safe harbour," is associated an Indian legend, of which the following is the substance : -- Once some Delaware warriors came to this spot with Pequod captives. Among the latter was a young chief, who was offered life and honour if he would renounce his nation, receive the mark of the turtle upon his breast, and become a Delaware brave.

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