[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Many, however that have been handed down colloquially without having been recorded m deed or record, have become so altered that even the Amerind himself, should he reappear from the « happy hunting ground," would be utterly uuable to recognize the present sounds of the terms as part of his native speech. Those of the personal names bestowed on places are especially difficult to analyze, owing to their construction and the changes already noted Many of the place names were translated many years ago by Schoolcraft, Trumbull, and others, some correctlv, and others more often incorrectly. Some of the latter were so erro-neous that thev have' been passed by the writer without notice. The present attempts are based upon the comparative rules of Algonquian nomenclature, and are therefore not the hasty generalization of misapplied Chippeway root terms so often used by Schoolcraft and 1 Recently adopted by the Bureau of Ethnology. 40 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY followed by others The names mostly are descriptive appellations of the localities where originally bestowed, and as such do not differ from those retained in other parts of the coun-try where the same language was spoken.,lco»efco!mc£ — Var., 4<?ueanowncfc, Achqueehgeuom. Hutchinson s Creek, Eastchester Creek, and a locality in West Farms. The variations of this term are quite numerous. Delaware, A chwowdngeu, "high bank." See Aquehung, another variant..