[FN] This translation is from _Nepe (Nepa, Nape, Nippe,_ etc.), meaning "water," generally, and _Komuk,_ "place enclosed, occupied, limited," a particular body of water. "The radical of _Nipe_ is _pe_ or _pa,_ which, with the demonstrative and definitive _ne_ prefixed, formed the noun _nippe,_ water." (Trumbull.) _Nape-ake (-auke, -aki)_ means "Water-land," or water-place. _Nape-ek,_ Del., _Nepeauk,_ Mass., means "Standing water," a lake or pond or a stretch of still water in a river. _Menuppek,_ "Lake, sea, any enclosed body of water, great or small." (Anthony.) _Nebi, nabe, m'bi, be,_ are dialectic forms. The Delaware _M'hi_ (Zeisb.) is occasionally met in the valley, but the Massachusetts _Nepe_ is more frequent. _Gami_ is another noun-generic meaning "Water" (Cree, _Kume_). _Komuk_ (Mass.), _Kamick_ (Del.), is frequently met in varying orthographies. In general terms it means "Place, limited or enclosed," a particular place as a field, garden, house, etc., as distinguished from _auke,_ "Land, earth, unlimited, unenclosed." Meghkeekassin, the name of a large rock in an obscure nook on the west side of the Neperah, near the Hudson, is written _Macackassin_ in deed of 1661. It is from _Mechek,_ Del., "great," and _assin_ "stone." "_Meechek-assin-ik,_ At the big rock." (Heckewelder.) The name is also of record _Amack-assin,_ a Delaware term of the same general meaning--"_Amangi,_ great, big (in composition _Aman-gach_), with the accessory notion of terrible, frightful." (Dr. Brinton.) Presumably, in application here, "a monster," _i. e._ a stone not of the native formation usually found in the locality. [FN] * * * * * [FN] The Indians are traditionally represented as regarding boulders of this class, as monuments of a great battle which was fought between their hero myth Micabo and Kasbun his twin brother, the former representing the East or Orient, and the latter the West, the imagery being a description of the primary contest between Light and Darkness--Light gleaming from the East and Darkness retreating to the West before it. Says the story: "The feud between the brothers was bitter and the contest long and doubtful. It began on the mountains of the East. The face of the land was seamed and torn by the wrestling of the mighty combatants, and the huge boulders that are scattered about were the weapons hurled at each other by the enraged brothers." The story is told in its several forms by Dr. Brinton in his "American Hero Myths."