[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] * * * * * [FN] The equivalent Mass. word is _paug,_ "Where water is," or "Place of water." (Trumbull.) Quassa-paug or Quas-paug, is the largest lake in Woodbury, Ct. Dr. Trumbull failed to detect the derivative of _Quas,_ but suggested, Kiche, "Great." Probably a satisfactory interpretation will be found in _Kussûk,_ "High." (See Quassaick.) Menisak-cungue, so written in Indian deed to De Hart in 1666, and also in deed from De Hart to Johannes Minnie in 1695, is written _Amisconge_ on Pownal's map, as the name of a stream in the town of Haverstraw. As De Hart was the first purchaser of lands at Haverstraw, the name could not have been from that of a later owner, as locally supposed. Pownal's orthography suggests that the original was _Ommissak-kontu,_ Mass., "Where Alewives or small fishes are abundant." The locative was at the mouth of the stream at Grassy Point. [FN] Minnie's Falls, a creek so known, no doubt, took that name from Johannes Minnie. On some maps it is called Florus' Falls, from Florus Crom, an early settler. An unlocated place on the stream was called "The Devil's Horse Race." * * * * * [FN] _Kontu,_ an abundance verb, is sometimes written _contee,_ easily corrupted to _cungue._ Dutch _Congé_ means "Discharge," the tail-race