prior to his landing at Manhattan. _Hacking_ and _Haken_ are unquestionably Dutch from the radical _Haak,_ "hook." The first is a participle, meaning _Hooking,_ "incurved as a hook," by metonymie, "a hook." It was used in that sense by the early Dutch as a substitute for Lenape _Hócquan,_ "hook," in Hackingsack, and Zeisberger used it in "_Ressel Hacken,_ pot-hook." No doubt Stuyvesant used it in the same sense in writing _Hobokan-Hacking,_ describing thereby both a hill and a hook, corresponding with the topography, to distinguish it from its twin-hook Arisheck. Had there been an Indian name given him for it, he would have written it as surely as he wrote Arisheck. When he wrote, "By us called," he meant just what he said and what he understood the terms to mean. To assume that he wrote the terms as a substitute for Lenape _Hopoakan-hacki-ug,_ "At (or on) the smoking-pipe land." or place where materials were obtained for making smoking-pipes, has no warrant in the record narrative. _Hacking_ was dropped from the name in 1635. * * * * * [FN-1] An ancient view of the shore-line represents it as a considerable elevation--a hill. [FN-2] Castle Point is just below Wehawken Cove in which Hudson is supposed to have anchored his ship in 1609. In Juet's Journal this land is described as "beautiful" and the cliff as of "the color of white green, as though it was either a copper or silver mine." It has long been a noted resort for mineralogists. [FN-3] Teunissed van Putten was the first white resident of Hoboken. He leased the land for twelve years from Jan. 1, 1641. The West India Company was to erect a small house for him. Presumably this house is referred to in the narrative. It was north of Hoboken Kill. [FN-4] Now a commercial village of Belgium. The prevailing dialect spoken there was Flemish, usually classed as Low German. The Low German dialects of three centuries ago are imperfectly represented in modern orthographies. In and around Manhattan eighteen different European dialects were spoken, as noted of record--Dutch, Flemish, German, Scandinavian, Walloon, etc.