Paquapick is entered on Pownal's map as the name of Passaic Falls. It is from _Poqui,_ "Divided, broken," and _-ápuchk,_ "Rock." Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter, who visited the falls in 1679-80, wrote in their Journal that the falls were "formed by a rock stretching obliquely across the river, the top dry, with a chasm in the center about ten feet wide into which the water rushed and fell about eighty feet." It is this rock and chasm to which the name refers--"Divided rock," or an open place in a rock. Pequannock, now so written, is the name of a stream flowing across the Highlands from Hamburgh, N. J. to Pompton, written Pachquak'onck by Van der Donck (1656); Paquan-nock or Pasqueck, in 1694; Paqunneck, Indian deed of 1709, and in other forms, was the name of a certain field, from which it was extended to the stream. Dr. Trumbull recognized it as the equivalent of Mass. _Paquan'noc, Pequan'nuc, Pohqu'un-auke,_ etc., "A name common to all cleared land, _i. e._ land from which the trees and bushes had been removed to fit it for cultivation." Zeisberger wrote, _Pachqu (Paghqu),_ as in _Pachqu-échen,_ "Meadow;" _Pachquak'onck,_ "At (or on) the open land." Peram-sepus, Paramp-seapus, record forms of the name of Saddle River, [FN] Bergen County, N. J., and adopted in _Paramus_ as the name of an early Dutch village, of which one reads in Revolutionary history as the headquarters of General George Clinton's Brigade, appears in deed for a tract of land the survey of which reads: "Beginning at a spring called _Assinmayk-apahaka,_ being the northeastern most head-spring of a river called by the Indians _Peram-sepus,_ and by the Christians Saddle River." Nelson (Hist. Ind. of New Jersey) quoted from a deed of 1671: "_Warepeake,_ a run of water so called by the Indians, but the right name is _Rerakanes,_ by the English called Saddle River." _Peram-sepus_ also appears as _Wieramius,_ suggesting that _Pera, Para, Wara,_ and _Wiera_ were written as equivalent sounds, from the root _Wil (Willi, Winne, Wirri, Waure),_ meaning, "Good, fine, pleasant," etc. The suffix varies, _Sepus_ meaning "Brook"; _Peake (-peék),_ "Water-place," and _Anes,_ "Small stream," or, substantially, _Sepus,_ which, by the prefix _Ware,_ was pronounced "A fine stream," or place of water. * * * * * [FN] Called "Saddle River," probably, from Richard Saddler, a purchaser of lands from the Indians in 1674. (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 478.) Monsey, a village in Rockland County, takes that name from an Indian resident who was known by his tribal name, _Monsey_--"the Monseys, Minsis, or Minisinks."