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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  ready 
  mentioned, 
  in 
  1697, 
  and 
  as 
  Wayhackameck 
  or 
  Little 
  Mines- 
  

   sing 
  creek 
  in 
  17 
  19. 
  The 
  reference 
  may 
  be 
  to 
  a 
  fishing 
  place. 
  

  

  Mal-lo-lans-ly 
  or 
  Ma-re-ten-ge 
  was 
  a 
  pond 
  in 
  the 
  Wallkill 
  valley 
  

   in 
  1756. 
  

  

  Mas-ka-eck 
  was 
  land 
  mentioned 
  at 
  Shawankonck 
  in 
  1702. 
  The 
  

   reference 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  to 
  a 
  grassy 
  place, 
  from 
  maskeht, 
  grass, 
  and 
  

   locative. 
  

  

  Mat-te-a-wan 
  or 
  South 
  mountains 
  has 
  been 
  defined 
  white 
  rocks. 
  

   but 
  with 
  nothing 
  to 
  support 
  the 
  interpretation. 
  Other 
  definitions 
  

   will 
  be 
  found 
  under 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  Dutchess 
  county. 
  

  

  Me-mo-ra-sinck 
  was 
  a 
  place 
  on 
  the 
  Evans 
  grant. 
  

  

  Men-a-yack 
  was 
  an 
  island 
  in 
  the 
  Minisink 
  region. 
  

  

  Mer-cla-ry 
  pond 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  Evans 
  tract. 
  

  

  Min-i-sink 
  has 
  a 
  popular 
  interpretation 
  of 
  land 
  from 
  which 
  the 
  

   zvater 
  is 
  gone. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  given 
  in 
  Eager's 
  history 
  of 
  Orange 
  county, 
  thus 
  : 
  " 
  Tra- 
  

   dition 
  said 
  that 
  before 
  the 
  Delaware 
  broke 
  through 
  the 
  Water 
  Gap 
  

   the 
  country 
  above 
  was 
  a 
  lake. 
  When 
  this 
  was 
  drained 
  the 
  lands 
  

   exposed 
  were 
  called 
  Minsies, 
  with 
  the 
  above 
  meaning, 
  and 
  the 
  In- 
  

   dians 
  who 
  settled 
  there 
  took 
  this 
  name. 
  Thence 
  came 
  the 
  present 
  

   name 
  of 
  Minisink. 
  In 
  1728 
  an 
  old 
  settler 
  wrote 
  that 
  this 
  was 
  the 
  

   best 
  interpretation 
  obtainable." 
  Ruttenber 
  said 
  of 
  this 
  : 
  " 
  Minnisink 
  

   is 
  from 
  Minnis, 
  an 
  island, 
  and 
  ink, 
  locality, 
  and 
  not 
  from 
  Minsis, 
  

   the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  Wolf 
  tribe 
  of 
  the 
  Lenapes. 
  The 
  name 
  has 
  a 
  very 
  

   general 
  application 
  to 
  lands, 
  in 
  Pennsylvania 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  New 
  York, 
  

   known 
  as 
  the 
  Minnisink 
  country. 
  It 
  had 
  its 
  origin 
  in 
  the 
  tradition 
  

   that 
  the 
  land 
  was 
  covered 
  with 
  water 
  and 
  broke 
  through 
  the 
  moun- 
  

   tain 
  at 
  the 
  Water 
  Gap, 
  or 
  Pohoqualin, 
  and 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  mean 
  the 
  land 
  

   from 
  which 
  the 
  water 
  is 
  gone." 
  This 
  can 
  only 
  be 
  sustained 
  by 
  

   going 
  back 
  to 
  the 
  primary 
  meaning 
  of 
  an 
  island 
  as 
  a 
  dry 
  place. 
  

   In 
  my 
  Chippewa 
  New 
  Testament 
  minisink 
  is 
  used 
  for 
  an 
  island, 
  

   and 
  thus 
  Schoolcraft 
  interprets 
  it 
  place 
  of 
  islands. 
  In 
  1697 
  a 
  

   conspicuous 
  one 
  was 
  mentioned 
  in 
  Minisink 
  river. 
  The 
  Minisink 
  

   patent 
  was 
  granted 
  in 
  1704. 
  

  

  Mis-tuck-y 
  was 
  an 
  Indian 
  village 
  in 
  Warwick. 
  Ruttenber 
  thought 
  

   this 
  came 
  from 
  miskotucky, 
  which 
  he 
  interpreted 
  as 
  either 
  red 
  hills 
  

   or 
  plains. 
  Mishuntugkoo, 
  it 
  is 
  well 
  wooded, 
  may 
  be 
  better. 
  

  

  