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my use of the diminutive with a locative, I agree with the late Dr Trumbull and other authorities with whom Mr Gerard is totally at variance.

I agree with Mr Gerard, that the word pokelogan has no affinity with pdkwa, "shallow." I simply referred to the name in passing as containing the radical poqua, u to open," in a generalized sense, which statement, strangely enough, Mr. Gerard confirms by saying that it probably means " an open ditch " — lagan being a corrupt form of the Algonquian affix of instrumentality.

Finally, as to the name Poughkeepsie, my derivation was also the result of much inquiry, research, and study, and not a hasty suggestion. Most of my early forms, on which it was based, were obtained from the records in the office of the Secretary of State at Albany, although some were furnished by a friend residing at Poughkeepsie. My earliest form antedates Mr Gerard's quotation some three years, and was at first applied to a creek, and the creek again mentioned with the same spell- ing in 1704. Ruttenber {Indians of Hudson River ', p. 371) says : " In a deed to Arnot Veil, covering the tract, the boundaries are described as beginning at a creek called Pacaksing by the river [Hudson] side ; in a petition from Wm. Caldwell the orthography is Pogkecpke, in an affi- davit by Myndert Harmense it is Pokeepsinck ; in other papers the prevailing orthography is Poghkeepkc y and finally it is found applied to a pond of water lying in the vicinity of the city, and its signification given as the muddy pond," etc. This pond has been entirely built over ; the march of improvement has obliterated all natural features, so that the present dweller within its confines can know but little of the primitive conditions existing more than two centuries ago. If there were nothing else that would show the worthlessness of Mr Gerard's derivation, the taking of the Lenape inseparable generic apuchk, " a standing-rock " (Mass. — ompsk) y and employing it as a possible prefix to an impossible name, would be enough to condemn it. It is well known that this generic cannot be so used, and the fact bears witness that Mr Gerard's criticisms are not based on strict rules of Algonquian nomenclature. William Wallace Tooker.

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