[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] APPENDIX. 377 name of the falls — a word signifying to sink, to be forced down under weight by water. Watchtung — literally mountain — was the name of a range of hills lying some twelve miles west of the Hudson; Ramspook or Ramapo, a river into which empties a number of round ponds; Pompton, " crooked mouth," refer ring to the manner in which the Ringwood and Ramapo rivers pass down and discharge themselves into the Pompton. It is said that the Tappans derived their name from lupbanne, a cold stream, signifying the people of the cold stream. Ku-mocbenack was the name for Haverstraw bay. A small stream flowing into the Ramapo river was the Chesekook, a name also applied " to a tract of upland and meadow " embraced in and known as the " Chesekook patent," which covered a large por tion of the original county of Orange, now Rockland. A small stream emptying into the Hudson just below Stony point, was called Minnisconga, from minnis an island, co or con, object, and ga a place, referring without doubt to Stony point itself which was then an island. The site of the present town of Orange-town was called the Narrasunck lands as late as 1769, a name which probably has its signification in na and unk, " good land." Verdrietig hook, or Tedious point, as the Dutch called it from the fact that it was generally so long in sight from their slow-sailing sloops, was called ^uaspeck, from qusuk, a stone.