as represented by the glittering sun-light, the material emblem of the mystery of light--"where day-light appears." Montauk, now so written--in early orthographies _Meantacut,_ _Meantacquit,_ etc.--was not the name of the peninsula to which it is now applied, but was extended to it by modern Europeans from a specific place. The extreme end was called by the Indians _Wompenanit,_ and the point, _Nâïag,_ "Corner, point or angle," from which Adriaen Block wrote, in 1614, _Nahicans,_ "People around the point," a later Dutch navigator adding (War Dep. Map) the topographical description, _Nartong,_ "A barren, ghastly tongue." The name has had several interpretations by Algonquian students, but without entire satisfaction even to themselves. Indeed, it may be said with truth, "It has been too much translated" to invite further study with the hope of a better result. The orthography usually quoted for interpretation appears first in South Hampton Records in an Indian deed of 1640, "_Manatacut,_ his X mark," the grantor being given the name of the place which he represented, as appears from the same records (1662), "Wyandanch, Meantacut sachem," or sachem of Meantac. The Indian deed reads: "The neck of land commonly known by the name of Meantacquit, . . . Unto the east side of Napeak, next unto Meantacut high lands." In other words the high lands bounded the place called Meantacqu, the suffix _-it_ or _-ut_ meaning "at" that place. The precise place referred to was then and is now a marsh on which is a growth of shrub pines, and cedars. Obviously, therefore, _Meantac_ or _Meantacqu,_ is an equivalent of Mass. _Manantac,_ "Spruce swamp," and of Del. _Menántac,_ "Spruce, cedar or pine swamp." (Zeisb.) The Abn. word _Mannaⁿdakôô,_ "cedar" (Mass. _-uɧtugh;_ Nar. _áwtuck_), seems to establish conclusively that _-ántak_ was the general generic suffix for all kinds of coniferous trees, and with the prefix _Men, Man, Me,_ etc., described small or dwarf coniferous trees usually found growing in swamps, and from which swamps took the name. [FN] There is nothing in the name or in its corruptions that means "point," "high lands," "place of observation," "fort," "fence," or "confluence"; it simply describes dwarf coniferous trees and the place which they marked. The swamp still exists, and the dwarf trees also at the specific east bound of the lands conveyed. (See Napeak.) * * * * *