and Great Barrington." Mass. (Doc. Hist. N. Y., iii, 1039.) The significance of the "ancient custom" of casting a stone to these heaps has not been handed down. Rev. Mr. Sergeant wrote, in 1734, that though the Indians "each threw a stone as they passed, they had entirely lost the knowledge of the reason for doing so," and an inquiry by Rev. Hawley, in 1758, was not attended by a better result. [FN-3] The heaps were usually met at resting places on the path and the custom of throwing the stone a sign-language indicating that one of the tribe had passed and which way he was going, but further than the explanation that the casting of the stone was "an ancient custom," nothing may be claimed with any authority. A very ancient custom, indeed, when its signification had been forgotten. * * * * * [FN-1] Williams wrote in the Narraganset dialect _Qussuck,_ stone; _Qussuckanash,_ stones; _Qussuckquon,_ heavy. Zeisberger wrote in the Minsi-Lenape, _Ksucquon,_ heavy; _Achsun,_ stone; _Apuchk,_ rock. Chippeway, _Assin,_ stone; _Aubik,_ rock. Old Algonquian, _Assin,_ stone. Eliot wrote in the Natick (Mass.) dialect, _Qussuk,_ a rock; _Qussukquanash,_ rocks; _Hussunash,_ stones; _Hussunek,_ lodge or ledge of rocks, and for _Hussimek_ Dr. Trumbull wrote _Assinek_ as an equivalent, and _Hussun_ or _Hussunash,_ stones, as identical with _Qussukqun,_ heavy. Eliot also wrote _-pick_ or _-p'sk,_ in compound words, meaning "Rock," or "stone," as qualified by the adjectival prefix, _Onap'sk,_ "Standing rock." [FN-2] Literally, "A meeting point," or sharp extremity of a hill. [FN-3] Doc. Hist. N. Y., iii, 1039. The heap referred to by Rev. Hawley was on the path leading to Schohare. It gave name to what was long known as the "Stoneheap Patent." The heap is now in the town of Esperance and near Sloansville, Schohare County. It is four rods long, one or two wide, and ten to fifteen feet high. (French.) Ahashewaghick and Ahashewaghkameck, the latter in corrected patent of 1715, is given as the name of the northeast boundmark of the Manor of Livingston, and described as "the northernmost end of the hills that are to the north of Tachkanick"--specifically by the surveyor, "To a heap of stones laid together on a certain hill called by the Indians Ahashawaghkik, by the north end of Taghanick hill or mountain"--has been translated from _Nash-ané-komuk_ (Eliot), "A place between." Dr. Trumbull noted _Ashowugh-commocke,_ from the derivatives quoted--_Nashaué,_ "between"; _-komuk,_ "place," limited, enclosed, occupied, _i. e._ by "a heap of stones laid together," probably by the surveyor of the prior Van Rensselaer Patent, of which it was also a boundmark. The hill is now the northeast comer of the Massachusetts boundary line, or the north end of Taghkanick hills.