[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] These roots are much the bigness and taste of potatoes." (Strachey.) Waumainuck— Delancy's Neck. Yar., Wabnanuck, "land round about." Some other place understood. Wampus.—" The Opossum." A personal name. Weckquaskeek.— Var., Wechquoesqueeck, Wiequotshook, Weecquoexguck, etc. Schoolcraft's suggestion, " the place of the bark-kettle," and as repeated in various histories, is absolutely worthless.' The name is simply a descriptive appellation of the locality where the Indians lived at the date of settlement. Delaware, Wiquie-askeek, Massachusetts, Wehque-askeet, Chippewa, U'aiekwa-ashkiki, "end of the marsh or bog." Weqh</itfghe. — Yar., Wyoquaqua. A variant of the foregoing. Wenntehees.— A locality in Cortlandt. Probably a personal name from the final s, although early forms, if found, might indicate with a locative an original Winne-pe-es-et, " at the good-tasted water-place," i.e., " a spring." Wishqua. — " The end." Wissayek. — Dover. "Yellow-place." Waccabuck.— A lake or pond in Lewisboro. Wequa-baug, " end or head of the pond." CHAPTER III