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Title: Footprints of the red men. Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Ruttenber, Edward Manning, 1825-1907
Subjects: Indians of North America -- New York Names, Indian -- North America Names, Geographical -- New York (State)
Publisher: (Newburgh, N.Y., Newburgh journal print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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an from thence across the marsh to the main, Later, thepath was converted to a causeway or road-approach to what is stillknown as Kings Bridge. A ferry was established here in 1669and known as The Spuyten Duyvil passage or road to and fromthe island to the main. In 1692 Governor Andros gave power tothe city of New York to build a bridge over the Spiken devilferry, and the city, with the consent of the Governor, transferredthe grant to Frederick Philipse. In giving his consent the Gover-nor made the condition that the bridge should thenceforth beknown and called Kings Bridge. It was made a free bridge in1758-9. The island or hummock came to be the site of thenoted Macomb mansion. The name has not been satisfactorily translated. Mr. Rikerwrote, Where the stream closes, or is broken off, recognizingthe locative of the name. Ziesberger wrote, Papinamen, Di-verting, turning aside, to go different ways; accessorily, that whichdiverts or turns aside, and place where the action of the verb is
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ON MANHATTAN ISLAND. 2 1 perfomied. Where the Harlem is turned aside or diverted, wouldbe a literal description. Spuyten Duyvil, now so written, was the early Dutch nicknameof the Papirinimen ford or passage, later known as Kings Bridge.■ By our people called, wrote Van der Donck in 1652, indicatingconference by the Dutch prior to that date. It simply describeddie passage as evil, vicious, dangerous. Its derivatives are Spui, sluice; Spidt, spout; Spuiten, to spout, to squirt, to dis-charge with force, as a waterspout, or water forced through a nar-row passage. Duyzil is a colloquial expression of viciousness.The same name is met on the Mohawk in application to the passageof the stream between two islands near Schenectady. The gen-erally quoted translation, Spuyt den Duyvil, In spite of the Devil,quoted by Brodhead as having been written by Van der Donck, hasno standing except in Irvings Knickerbocker History of NewYork. Van der Donck never wrote the sentence. He knew, andBrodhead k

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