[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] That spoken around New York on both sides of the river, was classed by the early Dutch writers as Manhattan, as distinguished from dialects in the Highlands and from the Savano or dialects of the East New England coast. North of the Highlands on both sides of the river, they classed the dialect as Wapping, and from the Katskills north as Mahican or Mohegan, preserved in part in what is known as the Stockbridge. Presumably the dialects were more or less mixed and formed as a whole what may be termed "The Hudson's River Dialect," radically Lenape or Delaware, as noted by Governor Tryon in 1774. In local names we seem to meet the Upper-Unami and the Minsi of New Jersey, and the Mohegan and the Natick of the north and east, the Quiripi of the Sound, and the dialect of the Connecticut Valley. In the belt of country south of the Katskills they were soft and vocalic, the lingual mute _t_ frequently appearing and _r_ taking the place of the Eastern _l_ and _n._ In the Minsi (Del.) Zeisberger wrote _l_ invariably, as distinguished from _r,_ which appears in the earliest local names in the valley of the Hudson. Other dialectic peculiarities seem to appear in the exchange of the sonant _g_ for the hard sound of the surd mute _k,_ and of _p_ for _g,_ _s_ for _g,_ and _t_ for _d,_ _st_ for _gk,_ etc.