as a substitute for the Algonquian term written _Ganawese,_ etc., of the same meaning. In the "History of New Sweden" (Proc. N. Y. Hist. Soc, 2d Ser. v. i.), the locative on the Delaware is described: "From Christina Creek to _Canarose_ or _Bambo_ Hook." In "Century Dictionary" _Bambo_ is explained: "From the native East Indian name, Malay and Java _bambu_, Canarese _banbu_ or _bonwu._" Dr. Brinton translated _Ganawese_ from _Guneu_ (Del.), "Long," but did not add that the suffix--_wese,_ or as Roger Williams wrote it, _quese,_ means "Little, small," the combination describing Bambo grasses, _i. e._ "long, small" grasses, which, in some cases reach the growth of trees, but on Long Island and on the Delaware only from long marsh grasses to reeds, as primarily in and around Jamaica Bay and Gowanus Bay, on Reed Island, etc. True, Ganawese would describe anything that was "long, small," but obviously here the objective product. Canarese, Canarose, Kanarische, Ganawese, represent the same sound-"in (East) Indian, Canaresse," as represented in the first Long Island form, Canari See, now Jamaica Bay. Keschaechquereren, (1636), _Keschaechquerem_ (1637), the name of the settlement that preceded Canarese, disappears of record with the advent of the English on Barren Island and at Gravesend soon after 1637-8. It seems to describe a "Great bush-net fishing-place," from K'sch-achquonican, "Great bush-net." (Zeisb.), the last word from _Achewen,_ "Thicket"; from which also _t' Vlact Bosch_ (Dutch), modern Flatbush. The Indian village was between the Stroome (tidewater) Kil and the Vresch Kil, near Jamaica. Narrioch was given by the chief who confirmed the title to it in 1643, as the name of what is now known as Coney Island, and _Mannahaning_ as that of Gravesend Neck. (Thompson's Hist. L. I., ii, 175.) The Dutch called the former Conynen, and the latter Conyne Hoeck--"_t' Conijen Conine._" Jasper Dankers wrote in 1679: "On the south (of Staten Island) is the great bay, which is enclosed by Najaq, t' Conijen Island, Neversink," etc. Conijen (modern Dutch, Konijn), signifies "Rabbit"--Cony, Coney--inferentially "Small"--literally, "Rabbit, or Coney Island," in Dutch. The Indian names have been transposed, apparently. _Mannahaning_ means "At the island," and _Narrioch_ is the equivalent of _Nayaug,_ "A point or comer," as in Nyack. The latter was the Dutch "Conyne Hoeck." Judge Benson claimed Conyn as "A Dutch surname, from which came the name of Coney, or Conyn's Island," but if so, the surname was from "Rabbit" surely.