In the absence of record names, the late Dr. Schoolcraft conferred, on several points, terms from the Ojibwe or Chippeway, which may be repeated as descriptive merely. A hill at the corner of Charlton and Varick streets was called by him _Ishpatinau,_ "A bad hill." [FN-2] A ridge or cliff north of Beekman Street, was called _Ishibic,_ "A bad rock;" the high land on Broadway, _Acitoc;_ a rock rising up in the Battery, _Abie,_ and Mount Washington, _Penabic,_ "The comb mountain." The descriptions are presumably correct, but the features no longer exist. * * * * * [FN-1] "By ye edge of ye hill by ye fresh water." (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 17.) The Dutch name ran into _Kalch, Kolack_ and _Collect,_ and in early records "_Kalch-hock._" from its peculiar shape, resembling a fish-hook. [FN-2] "At ye sand Hills near the Bowery." (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers. 17.) _Ishpetouga_ was given by the same writer to Brooklyn Heights, with the explanation "High, sandy banks," but the term does not describe the character of the elevation. (See Espating.) Muscota is given as the name of the "plain or meadow" known later as Montagne's Flat, between 108th and 124th streets. (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiv.) It also appears as the name of a hill, and in Muskuta as that of the great flat on the north side of the Spuyten Duivel. "The first point of the main land to the east of the island Papirinimen, there where the hill Muskuta is." The hill takes the name from the meadows which it describes. "_Moskehtu,_ a meadow." (Eliot.)