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Mo-nak-e-we-go is Bolton's name for Greenwich point. 



Mo-pus was a brook in North Salem, and Mr Tooker thought 

 this a variant of Canopus. 



Mos-ho-lu or Tibbett's brook in Yonkers. Tooker says this is 

 either made or corrupted, and thus without meaning. It might 

 refer to smooth stones or gravel. 



Mus-coo-ta, meadozu or place of rushes, a name often given to 

 wet lands or grassy flats, but there is a Muscoota mountain near 

 Croton river. In this case it would be mountain at the grassy place, 

 though there might be one on its side. Muscoot river is in Somers, 

 and the lowlands along the Harlem river were also called Mus- 

 coota. 



In the manor grant of Fordham is mentioned " the first point on 

 the mainland to the east of the island Pepiriniman — there where 

 the hill Moskuta is." 



Mu-tigh-ti-coos, the hare, is from a personal name. Mattegticos 

 and Titicus are variants. This is a branch of the Croton, mentioned 

 in 1699. 



My-an-as is a variant of Meanagh. 



Na-na-ma is- mentioned by Bolton, and may be from the chief 

 Noname. 



Na-nich-i-es-taw-ack, an early village in Bedford, is on Van der 

 Donck's map. Tooker derived it from the Delaware word nanat- 

 schitaw-ack, a place of safety, and thought it was a fort. 



Nap-peck-a-mack, an Indian village at Yonkers. Ruttenber de- 

 fined this rapid water ^ settlement, which Tooker calls erroneous. 

 The same name on Long Island is Rapahamuck, and he thinks both 

 N and R are intrusive, deriving the name from appeh-amack, a trap 

 fishing place. Traps were much used. 



Nar-a-haw-mis was at the southwest corner of a tract in Lewis- 

 boro in 1708. 



Nau-a-shin village was mentioned by Bolton. 



Na-vish was a tract which included Senasqua meadow in 1683. 



Nep-er-han or Nepera creek has an early name, but is sometimes 

 termed Sawmill creek. Land at Nipperha was mentioned in 1666. 

 Ruttenber derives this from nepe, ivater, but Tooker from apehhan, 

 a trap or snare, which is more satisfactory. 



