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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 58 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] _Hacking_ was dropped from the name in 1635. * * * * * [FN-1] An ancient view of the shore-line represents it as a considerable elevation--a hill. [FN-2] Castle Point is just below Wehawken Cove in which Hudson is supposed to have anchored his ship in 1609. In Juet's Journal this land is described as "beautiful" and the cliff as of "the color of white