The place to which the name was applied in the deed of 1658 seems to have been an open tract between the streams named, presumably a field lying along the Hudson, from the description, "running back towards the woods," suggesting that it was from the Lenape radical _Tauwa,_ as written by Zeisberger in _Tauwi-échen,_ "Open;" as a noun, "Open or unobstructed space, clear land, without trees." Dropping the initial we have _Auwi, Awie,_ of the early orthography; dropping _A_ we have _Wie_ and _Wee,_ and from _-échen_ we have _-ákan, -haken, -hawking,_ etc. As the name stands now it has no meaning in itself, although a Hollander might read _Wie_ as _Wei,_ "A meadow," and _Hacken_ as "Hooking," incurved as a hook, which would fairly describe Weehawking Cove as it was. Submitted to him in one of its modern forms, the late Dr. Trumbull wrote that _Wehawing_ "Seemed" to him as "most probably from _Wehoak,_ Mohegan, and _-ing,_ Lenape, locative, 'At the end (of the Palisades)'" and in his interpretation violated his own rules of interpretation which require that translation of Indian names must be sought in the dialect spoken in the district where the name appears. The word for "End," in the dialect spoken here, was _Wiqui._ Zeisberger wrote _Wiquiechung,_ "End, point," which certainly does not appear in any form of the name. The Dr.'s translation is simply worthless, as are several others that have been suggested. It is surprising that the Dr. should quote a Mohegan adjectival and attach to it a Lenape locative suffix. * * * * * [FN] A Dutch "morgen"' was about two English acres. Espating (_Hespating,_ Staten Island deed) is claimed to have been the Indian name of what is now known as Union Hill, in Jersey City, where, it is presumed, there was an Indian village. The name is from the root _Ashp_ (_Usp,_ Mass.; _Esp,_ Lenape; _Ishp,_ Chip.), "High," and _-ink,_ locative, "At or on a high place." From the same root Ishpat-ink, Hespating. (O'Callaghan.) See Ashpetong. Siskakes, now Secaucus, is written as the name of a tract on Hackensack meadows, from which it was extended to Snake Hill. It is from _Sikkâkâskeg,_ meaning "Salt sedge marsh." (Gerard.) The Dutch found snakes on Snake Hill and called it Slangberg, literally, "Snake Hill." Passaic is a modern orthography of _Pasaeck_ (Unami-Lenape), German notation, signifying "Vale or valley." Zeisberger wrote _Pachsójeck_ in the Minsi dialect. The valley gave name to the stream. In Rockland County it has been corrupted to Paskack, Pasqueck, etc.