Maskahnong, so written by Dr. O'Callaghan in his translation of the treaty between the Western Long Island clans, in 1656, is noted in "North and South Hempstead Records," p. 60, "A neck of land called Maskahnong." It disappears after 1656, but probably reappears as Maskachoung in 1658, and later as Maskutchoung, which see. Merick, the name of a village in Hempstead, Queens County, is said to have been the site of an Indian village called _Merick-oke._ It has been interpreted as an apheresis of a form of _Namanock,_ written _Namerick,_ "Fish place." (See Moriches.) Curiously enough, Merrick was a proper name for man among the ancient Britons, and the corruption would seem to have been introduced here by the early English settlers from resemblance to the Indian name in sound. The place is on the south side of the island. The Indian clan was known as the Merickokes. Quantuck, a bay so called in Southampton, is of record, in 1659, _Quaquanantuck,_ and applied to a meadow or neck of land. "The meadow called Quaquunantuck"--"the neck of land called Quaquanantuck"--"all the meadows lying west of the river, commonly called or known by the name of Quantuck." One of the boundmarks is described as "a stumpy marsh," indicating that it had been a marsh from which the trees had been removed. The name seems to correspond with this. It is probably from _Pohqu'un-antack,_ "cleared or open marsh" or meadow. (See Montauk.) Quogue, the name of a village near Quantuck Bay, and located, in Hist. Suffolk County, as "the first point east of Rockaway where access can be had to the ocean without crossing the bay," has been read as a contraction of Quaquaunantuck, but seems to be from _Pŏque-ogue,_ "Clear, open space," an equivalent of _Pŏque-auke,_ Mass. Rechqua-akie, De Vries; _Reckkouwhacky,_ deed of 1639; now applied to a neck on the south side of Long Island and preserved in Rockaway, was interpreted by the late Dr. E. B. O'Callaghan: "_Reck_ 'sand'; _qua,_ 'flat'; _akie,_ 'land'--the long, narrow sand-bar now known as Rockaway Beach," but is more correctly rendered with dialectic exchange of R and L, _Lekau._ (Rekau), "sand or gravel," _hacki,_ "land" or place. (Zeisb.) "Flats" is inferred. A considerable division of the Long Island Indians was located in the vicinity, or, as described by De Vries, who visited them in 1643, "near the sea-shore." He found thirty wigwams and three hundred Indians, who were known in the treaty of 1645, as Marechkawicks, and in the treaty of 1656 as Rockaways. [FN] * * * * * [FN] The names in the treaty of 1645, as written by Dr. O'Callaghan, are "Marechkawicks, Nayecks, and their neighbors"; in the treaty of 1656, "Rockaway and Canorise." The latter name appears to have been introduced after 1645 in exchange for Marechkawick. (See Canarise.) _Rechqua_ is met on the Hudson in Reckgawaw-onck, the Haverstraw flats. It is not an apheresis of Marechkawick, nor from the same root.