ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK I77 



Os-ce-o'-la, usually defined as black drink, is a pond between Lake 

 Mohegan and Lake Mahopac, and is named from the Seminole chief. 



Pa-ka-ke-ing creek was near the Matapan fall in 1680. The name 

 is from pahque, it is clear, and the locative terminal. 



Sag-a-more lake, an Algonquin title for a principal chief, derived 

 from a verb signifying to prevail over or have the mastery. 



Sim-e-wog hills, perhaps a place zvhere they shook hands. 



Tonetta lake does not seem of Indian origin, though such a word 

 might be formed from tanohketeau, referring to a cultivated place. 



Wic-co-pee or Wickopee pond, in the town of Southeast, is said 

 to have been named from a small Indian tribe. The reference may 

 be to a house by the water. 



QUEENS COUNTY, WITH PART OF NASSAU 



The Long Island Indians were all Algonquins, quite generally 

 united under one- leading chief, but with lesser ones exercising local 

 jurisdiction. Near Brooklyn their lands were soon bought and their 

 names quickly disappeared. For this reason some of the few Indian 

 names in the recently formed Nassau county will be placed with 

 those of Queens, where all writers have heretofore placed them. 

 This will facilitate reference to these names, the division by counties 

 used here being only for convenience. 



Busk-rum, in the town of Oyster Bay, was mentioned by Thomp- 

 son as an Indian name, but it was known as Buckram afterward, 

 and is now Locust Valley. 



Can-o-ras-set was the name first proposed for Jamaica, and Tooker 

 identified this with Canarsie. 



Ca-um-sett was Lloyd's Neck, and Horse Neck in some docu- 

 ments. 



Ga'-wa-nase-geh, a long island, is given by Morgan as the Oneida 

 name for the whole island. 



Ja-mai-cay. in its present form the name of one of the West 

 Indies, is said to mean there land of ivood and water, but it is 

 founded here on a local name, mentioned as Jamaico in 1674. Mr 

 Tooker thinks Gemeco or Jameco is derived from Tamaqua, the 

 heaver. Mrs Flint mentions early entries of " Ye bever-pond com- 

 monly called Jemeco," and says that Amique, the Mohegan word for 

 beaver, becomes Jamique when aspirated. 



