Brinton wrote: "From investigation among living Delawares, _Minsi,_ properly _Minsiu,_ formerly _Min-assin-iu,_ means 'People of the stony country,' or briefly, 'Mountaineers.' It is the synthesis of _Minthiu,_ 'To be scattered,' and _Achsin,_ 'Stone.' according to the best native authority." Apparently from _Min-assin_ we have Van der Donck's _Minn-essin;_ with locative _-k, -ck, -g, -gh, Minn-essin-ks,_ "People of the stony country," back-landers or highlanders. Interpretations of less merit have been made. One that is widely quoted is from Old Algonquian and Chippeway _Minnis,_ "Island," and _-ink,_ locative; but there is no evidence that _Minnis_ was in the dialect spoken here; on the contrary the record name of Great Minnisink Island, which is supposed to have been referred to, was _Menag'nock,_ by the German notation _Menach'hen-ak._ Aside from this _Minnissingh_ is of record at Poughkeepsie, in 1683, where no island is known to have existed, and in Westchester County the same term is met in _Men-assink_ (_Min-assin-ink_), "At a place of small stones." The deed description at Poughkeepsie located the tract conveyed "On the bank of the river," _i. e._ on the back or ridge lands. (See Minnis-ingh.) The final _s_ which appears in many of the forms of the name, and especially in _Minsis,_ is a foreign plural. * * * * * [FN] "Minnessinck ofte t' Landt Van Bacham," apparently received some of its letters from the engraver of the map. _Ofte_--Dutch and Old Saxon, _av_--English _of_--was probably used in the sense of identity or equivalency. Bacham--Dutch, _bak;_ Old High-German, _Bahhoham_--describes "An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge." In application to a tribe, "Ridge-landers," "Highlanders," or "Mountaineers." On the Hudson the tribe was generally known as Highlanders. The double _n_ and the double _s,_ in many of the forms, show that _e_ was pronounced short, or _i._ Menagnock, the record name of what has long been known as "The Great Mennissincks Island"--"The Great Island of the Mennisinks"--is probably an equivalent of _Menach'henak_ (Minsi) meaning "Islands." The island, so called, is a flat cut up by water courses, forming several small islands. Namenock, an island so called by Rev. Casparus Freymout in 1737, is probably an equivalent of Naman-ock and Namee-ock, L. I., which was translated by Dr. Trumbull from Mass. _Namau-ohke,_ "Fishing place," or "Fish country"--_Namauk,_ Del, "Fishing place." Perhaps it was the site of a weir or dam for impounding fish. Such dams or fishing places became boundmarks in some cases. The name was corrupted to _Nomin-ack,_ as the name of a church and of a fort three or four miles below what is now Montague, N. J. On Long Island the name is corrupted to _Nomin-ick._ (See Moriches.)