The name of the inlet, according to Tooker, bears some reference to a bad water place or swampy locality, which well describes the character of the borders of the creek and of its branches. The native names of three branches of Newtown creek have been preserved. Canapaukah, which seems to indicate a shut-in water place, was later Jknown as Dutch kills.

This inlet extended in to the heart of Long Island City, its source being near the approach to the Queensboro bridge at Rapelye and Freeman avenues. Armbruster considers the name to indicate a bears' water place, and thinks that this was indication of Canarsee ownership. The southwest extension of the creek was known as Quandoequareous.

Its tortuous course extends inland as far as John- INDIAN PATHS son avenue in Bushwick, and it partly forms the boundary between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Maspeth creek, which extends in a north easterly direction between the Laurel hill and Linden hill sections as far as Maspeth, perpetuates the native name of the entire inlet, and was probably applied to the native station (65) as well.