Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 59
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] varied, as beautiful a scene as one could wish to see. The rocks rise almost perpendicularly to one hundred and fifty feet above the river. Under these heights, about twenty feet above the water, on a shelf about six feet wide and eleven paces long, reached by an almost inaccessible flight of steps, was the dueling ground." South of King's Point were the famed Elysian Fields, at the southern extremity of which, under Castle Point, was Sibyl's Cave, a rocky cavern containing a fine spring of water. The place to which the name was applied in the deed of 1658 seems to have been an open tract between the streams named, presumably a field lying along the Hudson, from the description, "running back towards the woods," suggesting that it was from the Lenape radical _Tauwa,_ as written by Zeisberger in _Tauwi-échen,_ "Open;" as a noun, "Open or unobstructed space, clear land, without trees." Dropping the initial we have _Auwi, Awie,_ of the early orthography; dropping _A_ we have _Wie_ and _Wee,_ and from _-échen_ we have _-ákan, -haken, -hawking,_ etc. As the name stands now it has no meaning in itself, although a Hollander might read _Wie_ as _Wei,_ "A meadow," and _Hacken_ as "Hooking," incurved as a hook, which would fairly describe Weehawking Cove as it was. Submitted to him in one of its modern forms, the late Dr.