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 SECT. II.] ALGONKIN-LENAPE AND IROQUOIS NATIONS. 45 Hook, which seems to have belonged to another tribe.* On the north they were in possession of the country watered by the Schuylkill, to its sources. The line thence to the Hudson is more uncertain. They may originally have extended to the sources of the Delaware ; and it was perhaps owing to the conquests of a comparatively recent date, that, at the treaty of Easton, of 1758, the Delaware chief, Tedyuscung, who had at first asserted the claim of his nation to that extent, restricted it to one of the intervening ranges of hills, and acknowledged that the lands higher up the river belonged to his uncles of the Five Nations. East of the Delaware, the Lenape tribes were separated by the Catskill Mountains from the Mohawks. But if has already been stated that the Wappings intervened and extended even below the Highlands. The division line be- tween those Wappings and the Minsi, is not known with cer- tainty. That between the Delawares proper, and the Minsi in New Jersey, is ascertained by an authentic document. Almost all the lands in that colony had been gradually purchased from those Indians respectively who had actual possession. Some tracts remained, which both tribes stated not to have been in- cluded within those sales. And at the same treaty of Easton they both made distinct releases of all their claims to that resi- due ; the Delawares, for the lands lying south, and the Minsi for those lying north of a line drawn from Sandy Hook up the Raritan to its forks, then up its north fork to the falls of Alama- tung, and thence in a straight line to the Pasequalin Mountain on the River Delaware. The line in Pennsylvania between the tribes is not so clearly ascertained. It is however known that the tract, on which Nazareth stands, was purchased by the Moravians from the Minsi. Various tribes are mentioned by the Swedes and by De Laet, on both shores of the Delaware, from its mouth to Trenton Falls ; and the same observation applies to the western shore of the Hudson below the Highlands. But these are clearly local des- ignations ; and they are all included under the name of Rena- pi by the Swedish writers. The Delawares proper call them- selves Lenno-Lenape ; and the permutations of the letters r, 7, and n, are common everywhere amongst Indian tribes speaking the same language.
 * 1) Qware, whether the Conois ? See Alrick's Commission.