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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 27 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Surveyor Beatty's description, "Beginning at a place where," and the omission of the stream on his map, and its omission on subsequent maps of the manor, and the specific entry in the amended patent of 1715, "Beginning at a certain place called by the Indians Wahankassek," admit of no other conclusion, and the conclusion is, apparently, sustained by the name itself, which seems to be from Moh. _Wakhununuhkōōsek,_ "A high point," as a hill, mountain, peak, bluff, etc., from _Wakhu_, "hill, mountain," _uhk,_ "end, point," and _ōōsic,_ "peak, pinnacle." etc. The reference