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aki, land, referring to the conspicuous high banks. French pro- 

 nounced it Cook-sock-y and defined it owl hoot. Spafford also de- 

 rived it from an Indian word meaning the hooting of owls. One 

 Delaware name for owl is gokhoos, and if this is combined with 

 ahki we have owl land as a fair definition. Schoolcraft interpreted 

 it cut banks, or those cut off by water, and O'Callaghan suggested 

 that it might be a corruption of kaaks-aki, country of the wild goose, 

 deriving this from kaak, goose, and aki, place. Neither of these 

 two is probable. It might be from kussohkoi, a point of earth or 

 rock. The reference to owls is as well sustained as any. 



Kis-ka-tom, hickory nuts, is now the name of a creek and post- 

 office. There seems little to sustain this definition, and it might 

 better be derived from kishketuk, hy the riverside. As Kisketon it 

 was an Indian town on the Catskill. Zeisberger's nearest word is 

 quechquatonk, a concealer, perhaps by pits or caches, but Trumbull 

 indorses the definition first given, and his support has great value. 



Kis-ka-tom-e-na-kook was rendered place of thin-shelled hickory 

 nuts by Trumbull. It was on the west side of a round hill called 

 Wawantepekook, at the junction of the Kiskatom and Kaaterskill. 

 This was in 1708. The name is now applied to a large tract on both 

 sides of the Kiskatom. Ruttenber said that Henry Beekman had 

 a tract under the great mountains," by a place called Kiskatameck," 

 which seems the same. 



Kox-hack-ung was,sold in 1661, and was on the west side of the 

 river, between Van Bergen island and Neuten Hook. It seems a 

 variant of Coxsackie, and as Kockhachingh was a name for Nutten 

 Hook at Catskill. 



Ma-chach-keek or Wa-chach-keek has been defined house land, or 

 place of wigwams, and also hilly land, but neither of these seems 

 satisfactory. It may be from mohchi, unoccopied, adding the ter- 

 minal fire land. It was the first of the five plains sold in 1678. 



Ma-cha-wa-nick was at the Sluyt Hoeck or Flying Comer of the 

 Dutch in 1687. It was at the northeast corner of the Corlaer's kill 

 patent and the southeast corner of the Loonenburg patent. 



Mag-quam-ka-sick was a tract mentioned in 1691. It is one of 

 the two called Sandy Plains in South Cairo, and has been derived 

 from mogqui, great, and quasick, stone. 



Manch-we-he-nock may be a variant of the next. 



