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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 79 (part 4)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] In 1718 it was given as the name of a bound-mark of a tract described as "having on the east the land called Vlackte and Coxsackie." (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 124.) _Vlackte_ (Vlakte) is Dutch for "Plain or flat," and no doubt described the Great Nutten Hoek Flat which lies fronting Coxsackie Landing, and Coxackie described the clay bluff which skirts the river rising about one hundred feet. The bluff and flat bounded the tract on the east. From the locative the name may be translated from Mass. _Koghksuhk-ohke,_ meaning "High land." The guttural _ghks_ had the sound of Greek x, hence _Kox_ or _Cox._ Stighcook, a tract of land so called, now in Greene County, granted to