[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] a village, peninsula or neck of land and harbor on the east side of the pond. Probably from _Pohqu'unantak,_ "Cleared of trees," a marshy neck which had been cleared or was naturally open. The same name is met in Brookhaven. Cataconoche, given as the name of the Great Neck bounding Smithtown on the east, has been translated by Dr. Tooker from _Kehte-komuk,_ "Greatest field," later known as the Old Man's Field, or Old Field. Yaphank, Yamphank, etc., a village in Brookhaven, is from Niantic dialect in which _Y_ is used for an initial letter where other dialects employ _L, N_ or _R._ Putting the lost vowel _e_ back in the word, we have _Yapehánek,_ in Lenape _Rapehánek,_ "Where the stream ebbs and flows." The name is written Yampkanke in Indian deed. (Gerard.) The name is now applied to a small tributary of the Connecticut, but no doubt belongs to a place on the Connecticut where the current is affected by the tide. (See Connecticut.) Monowautuck is quoted as the Indian name of Mount Sinai, a village in the town of Brookhaven, a rough and stony district on what is known as Old Man's Bay, a small estuary surrounded by a salt-marsh meadow. The name seems to be an equivalent of _Nunnawanguck,_ "At the dry land." Old Man's Bay takes that name from the Great Neck called Cataconche, otherwise known as the Old Man's Meadow, and as the Old Field. "The two neckes or hoeces (hooks) of meadow that lieth next beyond the Old Man's