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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 55 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] * * * * * [FN-1] Before entering New York Harbor, Hudson anchored his ship below the Narrows and sent out an exploring party in a boat, who entered the Narrows and ascended as far as Bergen Point, where they encountered a second channel which they explored as far as Newark Bay. The place where the second channel was met they called "The Kils," or channels, and so it has remained--incorrectly "Kills." The Narrows they called _Col,_ a pass or defile, or mountain-pass, hence _Kil van Col,_ channel of the Narrow Pass, and hence _Achter Col,_ a place behind the narrow channel.