[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] record on the river which now bears his name. Five years after Hudson's advent Adriaen Block wrote _Manhates_ as the name of what is now New York Island, and later, De Vries wrote _Manates_ as the name of Staten Island, both forms having the same meaning, _i. e.,_ "Small island." There have been several interpretations of Mannahatin, the most analytical and most generally accepted being by the late Dr. J. H. Trumbull: "From _Menatey_ (Del.), 'Island'--_Mannahata_ 'The Island,' the reference being to the main land or to Long Island as the large island. _Menatan_ (Hudson's _Mannah-atin,_ _-an_ or _-in,_ the indefinite or diminutive form), 'The small island,' or the smaller of the two principal islands, the Manhates of Adriaen Block. [FN-4] _Manáhtons,_ 'People of the Island,' _Manáhatanesen,_ 'People of the small islands.'" [FN-5] The Eastern-Algonquian word for "Island" (English notation), is written _Munnoh,_ with formative _-an_ (Mun-nohan). It appears of record, occasionally, in the vicinity of New York, presumably introduced by interpreters or English scribes. The usual form is the Lenape _Menaté,_ Chippeway _Minnis,_ "Small island," classed also as Old Algonquian, or generic, may be met in the valley of the Hudson, but the instances are not clear. It is simply a dialectic equivalent of Del. _Ménates._ (See Monach'nong.) Van Curler wrote in his Mohawk vocabulary (1635), "_Kanon-newaga_, Manhattan Island." The late J. W.