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Mom-ba-sha-pond. If this is an Indian name it may be the lar,^er 

 form of Basha or a variant of Mombaccus. 



Mon-gaup or Mon-gaw-ping river has been defined several 

 streams^ in allusion to its three branches, but this is not satisfactory 



Mon-ha-gan is in Wallkill, and also seems to refer to an island. 



Much-hat-toes hill is in Windsor, near the south line of Newburgh, 

 and was called Snake hill. Ruttenber derived it from muhk, redo- 

 ut, near or by; os, small; and thence small red hill near the river. 

 Tooker placed it in Columbia county, and defined it great hill, which 

 is the meaning of Mishadchu. 



Nes-co-tonck may be from nishketeauog, they make it Ulthy. It 

 was in the Evans tract, and north of what was afterward known as 

 McKinstry's tannery. 



Ne-ver-sink river, a tributary of the Delaware, has been variously 

 named and defined. Schoolcraft thought it meant highlands be- 

 tween water, but applied the name to hills near the sea. Some have 

 derived it from newasink, and interpreted it mad river. There is 

 no good ground for this. 



Ogh-go-tac-ton was the name of a place for which Sanders asked 

 a patent in 1702, 



Pa-ka-da-sank or Pakasank, called Pekadasank in 1699, dififers 

 little from a name below but is a stream in the Wallkill valley, at 

 the eastern base of the Shawangunk mountains. 



Pa-quan-nack river was mentioned as being near the falls of 

 Pompeton in 1694. It may be derived from paukunawaw, a bear, 

 with locative affix, or from pehik-konik, a small plantation. 



Pa-sak brook is in Monroe. It may be from pasoo, it is near, 

 with locative. 



Pas-cack river may be in Delaware county. Freeland defined this 

 burnt lands. 



Pe-en-pack was an Indian settlement in Deer Park, the name re- 

 ferring to a hill. There was a patent for this land. 



Pe-ko-na-sink creek is in the west part of Crawford, and is a 

 corruption of Peadadasank creek, thus spelled in a deed of 1694. 

 Spafiford said Peconasink was still retained as the name of a tract 

 near the Shawangunk mountains. French mentions Paugh-caugh- 

 naugh-sink and the little creek of the same name. 



