It is almost an hour broad, but has large salt meadows or marshes on the Kil van Kol. It is everywhere accessible by water from the city." Ahasimus--_Achassemus_ in deed to Michael Pauw, 1630--now preserved in Harsimus, was a place lying west of the "Little Island, Aressick;" later described as "The corn-land of the Indians," indicating that the name was from Lenape _Chasqummes_ (Zeisb.), "Small corn." _Ashki'muis,_ "Sea maize." [FN] (See Arisheck.) * * * * * [FN] "The aforesaid land Ahasimus and Aressick, by us called the Whore's Corner, extending along the river Maurites and the Island Manhates on the east side, and the Island Hobokan-Hackingh on the north side, surrounded by swamps, which are sufficiently distinct for boundaries." (Pauw Deed, Nov. 22, 1630; Col.

Hist. N. Y., xiii, 3.) Mr.

Winfield located Ahasimus "At that portion of Jersey City which lies east of Union Hill, excepting Paulus' Hoeck (Areisheck),... generally from Warren to near Grove Street."