Walpack, N. J., is probably a corruption of _Walpeék,_ from _Walak_ (_Woalac,_ Zeisb.), "A hollow or excavation," and _-peék,_ "Lake," or body of still water. The idea expressed is probably "Deep water." It was the name of a lake.
Mamakating, now so written and preserved in the name of a town in Sullivan County, is written on Sauthier's map _Mamecatink_ as the name of a settlement and _Mamacotton_ as the name of a stream. Other forms are _Mamacoting_ and _Mamacocking._ The stream bearing the name is now called Basha's Kill, the waters of which find their way to the Delaware, and Mamakating is assigned to a hollow. The settlement was primarily a trading post which gathered in the neighborhood of the Groot Yaugh Huys (Dutch, "Great Hunting House"), a large cabin constructed by the Indians for their accommodation when on hunting expeditions, [FN-1] and subsequently maintained by Europeans for the accommodation of hunters and travelers passing over what was known as the "Mamacottin path," a trunk line road connecting the Hudson and Delaware rivers, more modernly known as the "Old Mine Road," which was opened as a highway in 1756. The Hunting House is located on Sauthier's map immediately south of the Sandberg, in the town of Mamakating, and more recently, by local authority, at or near what is known as the "Manarse Smith Spring," otherwise as the "Great Yaugh Huys Fontaine," or Great Hunting House Spring. [FN-2] The meaning of the name is largely involved in the orthography of the suffix. If the word was _-oten_ it would refer to the trading post or town, as in "_Otenink,_ in the town" (Heckewelder), and, with the prefix _Mamak_ (_Mamach,_ German notation), root _Mach,_ "evil, bad, naughty" (_Mamak,_ iterative), would describe something that was very bad in the town; but, if the word was _-atin,_ "Hill or mountain," the name would refer to a place that was at or on a very bad hill. Presumably the hill was the objective feature, the settlement being at or near the Sandberg. There is nothing in the name meaning plain or valley, nor anything "wonderful" about it. Among other features on the ancient path was the wigwam of _Tautapau,_ "a medicine man," so entered in a patent to Jacob Rutzen in 1713. _Tautapau_ (Taupowaw, Powaw), "A priest or medicine man," literally, "A wise speaker."