It is most probable that it is a corruption of the prosaic menantachk indicating the "wooded swamp" through which the upper part of the brook meandered. -- M. R. Harrington.

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6. Aspetong; Ashpetong. An elevation,

scarcely sufficiently conspicuous to deserve the name of a hill, seems to be indicated by the Delaware as pi, "lifted up," and the locative-o»g, "an elevated place," or as we should say, "rising ground." -- Information by M. R. Harrington.

7. Valentine's Manual for 1865, pp. 608 and

638.

8. Shepmoes. Though we might derive this

from the Delaware word sipo, a river, plus the suffix -es, meaning little, there is a closer resemblance to the recorded Natick sepomoese, and it would seem more probable that it is a title descriptive of a local feature, "the little brook."-- M. R. Harrington.

9. Valentine's Manual for 1864, p. 847.

10. Rechawanes, Rechewanis. Far from

indicating a great space of sand, as has been suggested by Riker and others, the precise derivation appears to be the Delaware lexan-hannes-s or "sand-streamlittle," descriptive of the small creek that flowed between its sandy banks. Rechewas point thus appears as lexau-es or "little sand point." -- M. R. Harrington.

11. Conykeekst. The Delaware kwene-akies-k indicates the character of the tract as a long-place-little-at, or long narrow tract, perhaps wooded, bounded west by the marsh lands and east by the surging waters of the East river. -- M. R. Harrington.

12. Riker, James, History of Harlem, p. 282.