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History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 212 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Opposite Anthony's Nose, was a " small rivulet called by ye Indians Assinnapink" or ct the stream from the solid rocks." South of this rivulet was Tongapogb kil, and north of it Pooploop's kil, the latter apparently the name of an Indian owner. Butter milk falls were called the Prince's falls, evidently from their ownership by a prince of " the people of the hill country." Plum point, north of the Highlands, was called Cowonham's hill, and the rocky island lying opposite, Polebers island, which has been corrupted into PallopePs island, and invested with a Dutch tradition which is not its own. That which has been known as the Murderer's creek, from a period anterior to Van der Donck's Map of New Netberland