Indian Language signifies only a Large Brook or broad Brook, or small Br k or high Hill, or only a Hill or' fall of water in general, so that the Indians shew many places by the same name Brooks and Rivers have different names withe the Indians, at different places and often change their names, they taking their names often from the abode of some Indian near the place where it is so called.

This

has given room to some to explain and enlarge their Grants according to their own inclinations by putting the names mentioned in their grants to what place or part of the Country they please, of

which I can give some particular instances where the claims of some have increased many miles, in a few years, and this they commonly do, by taking some Indians, in a Publick manner, to shew such places as they name to them, and it is too well known that an Indian will shew any place by any name you please, for the small reward of a Blanket or Bottle of Rum and the names as I observed, being common names in the Indian language, and not proper ones as they are understood to be in ;

English, gives more room to these Frauds.

Several of the great Tracts lying on Hudson's River are bounded by that River, on the East or West sides and on the North and South sides by Brooks or Streams of Water which, when the Country was not well known, were supposed to run nearly per} endicular to the River, as they do for some distance from their mouths, whereas many of these Brooks run nearly parallel to the River