[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] of Helle"--now known as the Dardanelles--which received its Greek name from _Helle,_ daughter of Athamas, King of Thebes, who, the fable tells us, was drowned in passing over it. Probably the Dutch sailors regarded the strait as the "Gate of Hell," but that is not the meaning of the name--"a dangerous strait or passage." In some records the strait is called _Hurlgate,_ from Dutch _Warrel,_ "Whirl," and _gat,_ "Hole, gap, mouth"--substantially, "a whirlpool." Monachnong, deed to De Vries, 1636; _Menates,_ De Vries's Journal; _Ehquaons_ (Eghquaous, Brodhead, by mistake in the letter _n_), deed of 1655, and _Aquehonge-Monuchnong,_ deed to Governor Lovelace, 1670, are forms of the names given as that of Staten Island, and are all from Lenape equivalents. _Menates_ means "Small island" as a whole; _Monach'nong_ means a "Place on the island," or less than the whole, as shown by the claims of the Indians in 1670, that they had not previously sold all the island. (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 453.) It is the equivalent of _Menach'hen,_ Minsi; _Menach'n,_ Abn., "Island," and _ong,_ locative; in Mass. _Mimnoh-han-auke._ (See Mannhonake.) _Eghquaons_ and _Aquehonga_ are equivalents, and also equivalents of _Achquoanikan-ong,_ "Bushnet fishing-place," of which _Acquenonga_ is an alternate in New Jersey.