Vr'«l\;|"'^ R ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 49 



hood, say the Van Ness place and J. C. Hageboom's, Squampanoc, 

 or Squampaaniac, but nobody knows its origin." Squam usually 

 refers to a rocky sumimit, but the whole word might also be applied 

 to a fishing place of some kind. 



Ska-an-kook or Skaanpook was a creek which became the Tawas- 

 tawekak lower down. 



Tagh-ka-nick or Tacahkanick lay east of Roeloff Jansen's kill. 

 Ruttenber says that it was at first a local name, though now having 

 a wide range. Locally it is pronounced Toh-kon-ick, and is said to 

 have been the name of a spring on the west side of the mountain 

 in Copake. This has suggested the interpretation as ivater enough. 

 It is now usually applied to the mountains and town, and from the 

 former geologists have the term Taconic. Some have defined this 

 as forest or -dinlderncss. Zeisberger has Tachannike, f\dl of timber, 

 and this seems a good definition for the local name. Mr Tooker 

 discussed the name at some length, with a different conclusion. 

 He said that a place near Shekomeko was called K'takanatshau, 

 the big mountain, and that Ket-takone-adchu, a great iv'oody moun- 

 tain, is the proper title of this range. 



Tak-ki-che-non was a meadow bought in 1678. 



To-was-ta-we-kak or Twastaweekak is now Claverack creek. The 

 upper part was called Skaankook. 



Wa-cha-ne-kas-sick was a creek opposite Catskill in 1683, when 

 the first purchase for the Livingston manor was made. The name 

 may be from Wadchinat, to come out of, and quassick, stones, i. e., 

 a stream: from a stony place. It is also written Wackanhasseck, 

 Wachankasigh and Wackanekasseck, suggestive of other names. 



Wa-peem Wats- joe, east mountain, is said by Mr Tooker to have 

 been the Indian name of Karstenge Bergh, a place called from an 

 Indian to whom the Dutch had given a name. Wadchu is 

 mountain. 



Wash-bum mountains are on a map of 1798. 



Wa-wa-na-quas-sick, at the heaps of stones, may differ from the 

 other form in meaning by deriving it from wauwanot, witness, and 

 quassick, stones, thus making it stones of witness. 



Wa-we-igh-nunck patent, 1743. 



Wa-wi-jeh-tan-ock, land about a hill, is Tooker's name for a 

 place in this county. 



