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Rh Kittatinney mountains, by the rivers or ſtreams falling into the Delaware, and the county of Newcaſtle in the ſtate of Delaware, as far as Duck creek. It is to be obſerved, that the nations of Indians diſtinguiſhed their countries one from another by natural boundaries, ſuch as ranges of mountains or ſtreams of water. But as the heads of rivers frequently interlock, or approach near to each other, as thoſe who live upon a ſtream claim the country watered by it, they often encroached on each other, and this is a conſtant ſource of war between the different nations. The nation occupying the tract of country laſt deſcribed, called themſelves Lenopi. The French writers call them Loups; and among the Engliſh they are now commonly called Delawares. This nation or confederacy conſiſted of five tribes, who all ſpoke one language. 1. The Chihohocki, who dwelt on the weſt ſide of the river now called Delaware, a name which it took from Lord De la War, who put into it on his paſſage from Virginia in the year , but which by the Indians was called Chihohocki. 2. The Wanami, who inhabited the country called New-Jerſey, from the Rariton to the ſea. 3. The Munſey who dwelt on the upper ſtreams of the Delaware, from the Kittatinney mountains down to the Lehigh or weſtern branch of the Delaware. 4. The Wabinga, who are ſometimes called River Indians, ſometimes Mohickanders, and who had their dwellings between the weſt branch of Delaware and Hudſon's River, from the Kittatiney ridge down to the Rariton: and 5. The Mahiccon, or Mahattan, who occupied Staten iſland, York iſland (which from its