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  YORK 
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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, 
  by 
  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 
  Corner 
  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. 
  

  

  