. Tales of old New York ... library of the New York His-torical Society. Also, there is an exceedingly interest-ing collection of Indian relics in the Museum of Natu-ral History. It contains arrow-points dug up in a cel-lar on Avenue A above 120th Street, pottery found atBroadway and 220th Street, a circular hammer-stoneand a tomahawk discovered at 118th Street near NinthAvenue, and a number of other articles found at vari-ous places. Manhattan is an Indian name, but just what itmeans is a puzzle. There are several explanationsand it is impossible to say which one is correct. Onestates that it
. Tales of old New York ... library of the New York His-torical Society. Also, there is an exceedingly interest-ing collection of Indian relics in the Museum of Natu-ral History. It contains arrow-points dug up in a cel-lar on Avenue A above 120th Street, pottery found atBroadway and 220th Street, a circular hammer-stoneand a tomahawk discovered at 118th Street near NinthAvenue, and a number of other articles found at vari-ous places. Manhattan is an Indian name, but just what itmeans is a puzzle. There are several explanationsand it is impossible to say which one is correct. Onestates that it means ^an island formed by the tide^;another, that it is the island of the hills; anothertells us that it was called the place of the whirlpool*because of the rushing waters of Hell Gate; while stillanother would have us believe that it is the Indian ex-pression for a place of drunkenness.* The last explanation, which is certainly a surpris-ing one, arises from an old tradition, Traditions, be- INDIANS OF MANHATTAN ISLAND. Amulet
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