[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] except by extension to it. Peenpack, (Paan, Paen, Pien, Penn) is given, _traditionally,_ as the name of a "Small knoll or rise of ground, some fifty or sixty rods long, ten wide, and about twenty feet high above the level of" Neversink River, "on and around which the settlers of the Maghaghkamik Patent first located their cabins." It has been preserved for many generations as the name of what is known as the Peen-pach Valley, the long narrow flats on the Neversink. Apparently it is corrupt Dutch from _Paan-pacht,_ "Low, soft land," or leased land. The same name is met in _Paan-paach,_ Troy, N. Y., and in _Penpack,_ Somerset County, N. J. The places bearing it were primary Dutch settlements on low lands. (See Paanpaach.) Doubtfully a substitution for Algonquian from a root meaning, "To fall from a height" (Abn., _Paⁿna;_ Len. _Pange_), as in Abn. _Panaⁿk'i,_ "Fall of land," the downward slope of a mountain, suggested by the slope of the Shawongunk Mountain range, which here runs southwest to northeast and falls off on the west until it meets the narrow flats spoken of. The same feature is met at Troy. Tehannek, traditionally the name of a small stream on the east side of the Peenpack Knoll, probably means "Cold stream," from _Ta_ or _Te,_ "cold," and _-hannek,_ "stream." It is a mountain brook.