Trumbull: "From _Menatey_ (Del.), 'Island'--_Mannahata_ 'The Island,' the reference being to the main land or to Long Island as the large island. _Menatan_ (Hudson's _Mannah-atin,_ _-an_ or _-in,_ the indefinite or diminutive form), 'The small island,' or the smaller of the two principal islands, the Manhates of Adriaen Block. [FN-4] _Manáhtons,_ 'People of the Island,' _Manáhatanesen,_ 'People of the small islands.'" [FN-5] The Eastern-Algonquian word for "Island" (English notation), is written _Munnoh,_ with formative _-an_ (Mun-nohan). It appears of record, occasionally, in the vicinity of New York, presumably introduced by interpreters or English scribes. The usual form is the Lenape _Menaté,_ Chippeway _Minnis,_ "Small island," classed also as Old Algonquian, or generic, may be met in the valley of the Hudson, but the instances are not clear. It is simply a dialectic equivalent of Del. _Ménates._ (See Monach'nong.) Van Curler wrote in his Mohawk vocabulary (1635), "_Kanon-newaga_, Manhattan Island." The late J. W. Powell, Director of the Bureau of Ethnology, wrote me: "In the alphabet of this office the name may be transliterated _Kanoñnò'ge._ It signifies 'Place of Reeds.'" Perhaps what was known as the "Reed Valley" was referred to, near which Van Twiller had a tobacco plantation where the Indians of all nations came to trade. (See Saponickan.) The lower part of the island was probably more or less a district of reed swamps. * * * * * [FN-1] Brown's "Genesis of the United States," 327, 457, 459, ii, 80. [FN-2] Colonial History of New York. [FN-3] Hudson anchored in the bay near Hoboken. Near by his anchorage he noticed that "there was a cliff that looked of the color of white green." This cliff is near Elysian Fields at Hoboken. (Broadhead.) The cliff is now known as Castle Point. [FN-4] The reference to Adriaen Block is presumably to the "Carte Figurative" of 1614-16, now regarded as from Block's chart. [FN-5] "Composition of Indian Geographical Names," p. 22. Pagganck, so written in Indian deed of 1637, as the name of Governor's Island--Peconuc, Denton, is an equivalent of _Pagán'nak,_ meaning literally "Nut Island." Also written _Pachgan,_ as in _Pachganunschi,_ "White walnut trees." (Zeisb.) Denton explained, "Because excellent nut trees grew there." [FN] The Dutch called it "der Nooten Eilandt," literally "The Walnut Island," from whence the modern name, "Nutten Island." The island was purchased from the Indian owners by Director Wouter van Twiller, from whose occupation, and its subsequent use as a demense of the governors of the Province, its present name. * * * * *