Mr. Ralph Wisner, of Florida, Orange County, recently reproduced in the Warwick Advertiser, an affidavit made by Adam Wisner, May 19th, 1785, at a hearing in Chester, in the contention to determine the boundary line of the Cheesec-ock Patent, in which he stated that he was 86 years old on the 15th of April past; that he had lived on the Wawayanda Patent since 1715; that he "learned the Indian language" when he was a young man; that the Indians "had told him that Wawayanda signified 'the egg-shape,' or shape of an egg." Adam Wisner was an interpreter of the local Indian dialect; he is met as such in records. His interpretations, as were those of other interpreters, were mainly based on signs, motions, objects. _Waway,_ "Winding about many times," would describe the lines of an egg, but it is doubtful if the suffix, _-anda,_ had the meaning of "shape." The familiar reading of Wawayanda, "Away-over-yonder," is a word-play, like Irving's "Manhattan, Man-with-a-hat-on." Dr. Schoolcraft's interpretation, "Our homes or places of dwelling," quoted in "History of Orange County," is pronounced by competent authority to be "Dialectically and grammatically untenable." It has poetic merit, but nothing more. Schoolcraft borrowed it from Gallatin. Woerawin, given by Dr. Staats as the name of his second purchase, is also a verbal noun. By dialectic exchange of _l_ for _r_ and giving to the Dutch _æ_ its English equivalent _ü_ as in bull, it is probably from the root _Wul,_ "Good, fine, handsome," etc., with the verbal termination _-wi_ (Chippeway _-win_), indicating "objective existence," hence "place," a most appropriate description for many places in the Wawayanda or Warwick Valley. Monhagen, the name of a stream in the town of Wallkill, is, if Indian as claimed, an equivalent of _Monheagan,_ from _Maingan,_ "A wolf," the totem of the Mohegans of Connecticut. The name, however, has the sound of Monagan--correctly, _Monaghan,_ the name of a county in Ireland, and quite an extensive family name in Orange County.