[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] The tract is now known as Strickland Plain, [FN-3] and is described as "Plain and water-land"--"A valley but little above tidewater; on the southwest an extended marsh now reclaimed in part." The same general features were met in _Petuckquapaen,_ now Greenbath, opposite Albany, N. Y. Dr. Trumbull also wrote, "The Dutch met on Long Island the word _Seaump_ as the name of corn boiled to a pap. The root is _Saupáe_ (Eliot), 'soft,' _i. e._ 'made soft by water,' as _Saupáe manoosh,_ 'mortar,' literally 'softened clay.' Hence the Dutch word _Sappaen_--adopted by Webster _Se-pawn._" Other examples could be quoted but are not necessary to establish the meaning of Dutch Tappaan, or Tappaen. An interpretation by Rev. Heckewelder, quoted by Yates & Moulton, and adopted by Brodhead presumably without examination: "From _Thuhaune_ (Del.), cold stream," is worthless. No Delaware Indian would have given it as the name of Tappan Creek, and no Hollander would have converted it into Tappaan or Tappaen. The Palisade Range, which enters the State from New Jersey, and borders the Hudson on the west, terminates abruptly at Piermont. Classed by geologists as Trap Rock, or rock of volcanic origin, adds interest to their general appearance as calumnar masses. The aboriginal owners were not versed in geologic terms. To them the Palisades were simply _-ompsk,_ "Standing or upright rock." * * * * *