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may be derived from snkqniyeu, powdered or in poivder, and ahki, 

 land. 



Skook-quams is Thompson's name for a place in Islip. 



Sonn-quo-quas was a name of Tom's creek in Southold, in 1660. 

 It may be derived from simnkknhkan, crushed by a heavy zueight, 

 as in a trap. 



So-was-sett is now Port Jefferson. At the place of unstrung 

 wampum. 



Spe-onk is a village near East bay in Southampton. The name 

 may have been corrupted from that of a root. 



The Squam or Squam Pit purchase was made in 1699. TrtTmbull 

 considered this a corrupt form of the name of a rocky summit. It 

 is often found. 



Squaw-sucks, ivomen^ is a village in Brookhaven. 



Sre-cun-kas or Screcunkas was an island of meadow in Southold 

 bay in 1689. The name may be incorrect as preserved, and pos- 

 sibly derived from suckauanausuck, black shells. 



Sug-ga-muck, a small creek, has been defined bass tishing place, 

 but seems more correctly rendered fishery at the outlet. 



Sun-quams or Melville has been translated cool place. This was 

 a name for Babylon river, according to Thompson. 



Ta-ta-muck-a-ta-kis creek, mentioned in Huntington in 1693, was 

 near Coppiag Neck. It suggests the following name. 



Ta-ta-mun-e-hese Neck was in the same town in 1666. It may 

 have a reference t(? an inclosed place. 



Tau-ko-mo Neck was mentioned here in 1696. 



Ti-an-na is one of Thompson's Southampton names, perhaps not 

 an Indian word, though it might be derived from tannag, a crane. 



To-youngs was a name of Reed creek in 1665, and Thompson 

 said that Toyongs was a brook tributary to Wading river. It is 

 often called Toyong, and this was its form in 1679. 



Towd, a lozv place petzveen the hills. A better derivation may 

 be from touweu, it is deserted. 



Tuck-a-hoe, near Southampton, is derived from p'tuckwe, the 

 name of a large round root. Trumbull said that the common Tuck- 

 ahoe of Virginia, used for Indian bread (Tockwogh of Smith), 

 was the root of the golden club, Orontium aquaticum, 



Un-ca-chaug was written Vncachoag and Vncheckaug in 1667, 



