The greater part of these objects is in the American Museum of Natural History, and one fine pointedbottom jar is in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

65. Mespaetches (Map VIII, B). The

modern Maspeth. The name is applied to Newtown creek and the contiguous swampy area, and probably to the place of residence of some natives known as the Maspeth tribe. The name denotes "at the bad water place" (Tooker, Indian Place Names).

66. Rinnegaconck (Maps II; VIII, A). A

native site, evidenced by debris, firepits, and weapons, which existed on a hillock at Bridge street. This site is described and located by Gabriel Furman (Antiquities of Long Island, 1875). The name was applied to the vicinity of Wallabout bay, and probably included this occupied station.

67. Werpos, Worpus (Map VIII, A). A

village in the 10th ward of old Brooklyn, bearing the same name as the Manhattan village (2). It was situated near Hoyt and Baltic streets, on the old farm 'of Fredrick Lubbersen, and was then a close neighbor of Marechkawick (117).

68. Nayack (Map VIII, C). The name denoting a point of land, probably applied to the whole neck which now includes Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton. The position of the native village to which

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the inhabitants of lower Manhattan retired is not known. It would have been favorably situated at the southeast end of the United States reservation near the water supply in Dyker Heights Park.

69. Narrioch (Map VIII, D). That part of