Wachachkeek, of record as the name of the first of "five great flats, with the woodland around them," which were included in the Catskill Patent of 35,000 acres, is otherwise written _Machachkeek._ It is described as "lying on both sides of Catskil Creek," and is claimed to be known as a place west of the village of Leeds. Dr. O'Callaghan interpreted the name from _Wacheu,_ "hill," and _-keag,_ "land" or place--"Hill country," and Dr. Trumbull gave the same meaning from _Wadchuauke._ The orthography of the second form, however, is probably the most correct--_Machachkeek_--which pretty surely, from the locative, stands for _Maskekeck,_ meaning, "Marsh or wet meadow." Wichquanachtekok, the name of the second flat, is no doubt an equivalent of _Wequan-achten-ûk,_ "At the end of the hill," from _Wequa,_ "the end"; _-achtene,_ "hill" or mountain, and _-ûk,_ locative. Pachquyak, Pachquyak, Paquiage, etc., forms of the name of the third flat (_Pachquayack,_ 1678), given also as the name of a flat "in the Great Imbocht," [FN] is the equivalent of _Panqua-auke,_ Mass., "Clear land, open country." Brodhead wrote _Paquiage_ as the name of the place on the west side of the Hudson to which the followers of King Philip retreated in 1675, but the name may have been that of any other open or unoccupied land west of the Hudson. (See Potik.) * * * * * [FN] Dutch _Inbocht,_ "In the bend," "bay," etc. "Great" was added as an identification of the particular bend spoken off. Paskaecq--"a certain piece of land at Katskill, on the north side of the kill, called by the Indians Paskaecq, lying under a hill to the west of it." Conveyed to Jan Bronk in 1674-5. The name describes a vale, cleft or valley. It is widely distributed. (See Paskack.) Assiskowachok or Assiskowacheck, the name of record as that of the fourth flat, is no doubt from _Assiskeu,_ "Mud"--_Assiskew-aughk-ûk,_ "At (or on) a muddy place." Potic, the name of the fifth flat, is also of record Potick, Potatik, and Potateuck, probably an equivalent of _Powntuckûk_ (Mass.), denoting, "Country about the falls." (Trumbull.) From the flat the name was extended to a hill and to a creek in the town of Athens. Hubbard, in his "History of Indian Wars," assigns the same name to a place on the east side of Hudson's River. (See Pachquyak and Schaghticoke.) Ganasnix and Ganasenix, given as the name of a creek constituting the southern boundary of the Lockerman Patent (1686), seems to be an orthography of Kaniskek, which see.