Shokan, the name of a village on Esopus Creek, in the town of Olive, has been interpreted as a pronunciation of _Schokkan_ (Dutch), "To jolt, to shake," etc., by metonymie, "A rough country." The district is mountainous and a considerable portion of it is too rough for successful cultivation, but no Hollander ever used the word _Schokken_ to describe rough land. At or near the village bearing the name a small creek flows from the west to the Esopus, indicating that _Shokan_ is a corruption of _Sohkan,_ "Outlet or mouth of a stream." _Sohk_ is an eastern form and _an_ is an indefinite or diminutive formative. Heckewelder wrote in the Delaware, _Saucon,_ "The outlet of a small stream into a larger one." _Ashokan_ is a pronunciation. The same name is met at the mouth of the East or Paghatagan Branch of the Delaware. Shokan Point is an elevation rising 3100 feet. Koxing Kil, a stream so called in Rosendale, is of record _Cocksing_ and _Cucksink_--"A piece of land; it lyeth almost behind Marbletown." It is not the name of the stream but of a place that was at or near some other place; probably from _Koghksuhksing,_ "Near a high place." (See Coxackie.) On map of U. S. Geological Survey the name is given to the outlet of Minnewaska Lake, which lies in a basin of hills on Shawongunk Mountain, 1650 feet above sea level. Shandaken, the name of a town in Ulster County, is not from any word meaning "Rapid water," as has been suggested, but is probably from _Schindak,_ "Hemlock woods"--_Schindak-ing,_ "At the hemlock woods," or place of hemlocks. The region has been noted for hemlocks from early times.