[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The Highlands of the Hudson were not called Matteawan mountains, as stated by Moulton. The Indians had no names for mountain ranges, but designated different parts or peaks by different names. In the patent known as the Little Nine Partners, one of the more eastern peaks of the Highland range is called Weputing, from Weepitung, literally tooth mountain, probably from its resemblance to a molar tooth. The nearest approach to a name for the range was that which the Indians sometimes applied to themselves — Wequekachke, or " the people of the hill country." x The Dutch used Hoogland or Hoge-land in speaking of the range,' and, like the Indians, gave names to particular peaks, as Anthony's Nose, Dunderberg, ButtabergJ', etc. 1 Hogeland, or Hoogland, Dutch for them Wequchachke, the hill country. — Highlands, a name applied to the High-Memorials Moravian Church, 146. lands of New York. The Indians called -370 HUDSON RIPER INDIANS. Matteawan was the Indian name for what is now called Fish-kill creek, but which the early settlers denominated the " Fresh kil or creek." The meaning of the word has been defined as " good furs," and Moulton has endeavored to associate it with the incantations of Indian priests, but on no positive authority. Matta, in the Massachusetts dialect, is the elemen tary form of negative words, and generally used for no; wa is inanimate motion.