[FN-1] Westenhoek is Dutch. It means "West corner." It was given by the Dutch to a tract of land lying in a bend of Housatonuk river, long in dispute between New York and Massachusetts, called by the Indians W-nagh-tak-ook, for many years the name of the capital town of the Mahican nation.(Loskiel.) Rev. Dr. Edwards wrote it Wnoghquetookooke and translated it from an intimate acquaintance of the Stockbridge dialect, "A bend-of-the-river-place." Mr. Gerard writes it, Wamenketukok, "At the winding of the river." Now Stockbridge, Mass. [FN-2] "Tjughsaghrondie, alias Wawayachtenok." (Col. Hist. N. Y., iv, 900; La Trobe's Translation of Loskiel, i, 23.) The first name, Tjughsaghrondie, is also written Taghsaglirondie, and in other forms. It is claimed to be from the Wyandot or Huron-Iroquoian dialect. In History of Detroit the Algonquin is quoted Waweatunong, interpreted "Circuitous approach," and the claim made that the reference was to the bend in the Strait at Detroit at an elevation "from which a view of the whole broad river" could be had. In Shawano, _Wawia'tan_ describes bending or eddying water--with locative, "Where the current winds about." The name is applicable at any place where the features exist. Metambeson, a creek so called in Duchess County, is now known as Sawkill. It is the outlet of a lake called Long Pond. The Indian name is from _Matt,_ negative and depreciatory, "Small, unfavorable," etc., and _M'beson,_ "Strong water," a word used in describing brandy, spirits, physic, etc. The rapidity of the water was probably referred to. Waraughkameck--Waraukameck--a small lake in the same county, is now known as "Fever Cot or Pine Swamp." The Indian name is probably an equivalent of Len. _Wálagh-kamik,_ an enclosed hole or den, a hollow or excavation. Aquassing--"At a creek called by the Indians Aquassing, and by the Christians Fish Creek"--has not been located. _Aquassing_ was the end of the boundary line, and may be from _Enaughquasink,_ "As far as." Tauquashqueick, given as the name of a meadow lying between Magdalen Island [FN] and the main land, now known as "Radcliff's Vly," is probably an equivalent of _Pauqua-ask-ek._ "Open or clear wet meadow or vly." * * * * * [FN] Magdalen Island is between Upper and Lower Red-hook. The original Dutch, Maagdelijn, supposed to mean "A dissolute woman," here means, simply, "Maiden," _i. e._ shad or any fish of the herring family. (See Magaat Ramis.) The name appears on Van der Donck's map of 1656.