"Jeff" wrote in message
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Wolfgang wrote:

Even more interesting is the Beaverkill. Presumably, this is where early
Dutch-American truckers went to ogle naked female bathers.

...and schuylkill in PA??

Hm......

Yeah, that one's a bit of a poser. The folks at:

http://www.delawareriverkeeper.org/piedmont.html

say, "As the first westerners came to the area they sailed right past the
mouth of the Schuylkill which drains into the estuary region of the main
stem Delaware. Arendt Corssen, who explored the Schuylkill for the Dutch
East Indies Company, named the river 'Schuyl Kil' meaning hidden river, for
the reeds, sedges and grasses that hid the mouth of the Schuylkill.".....but
that's dull.

Unfortunately, the American Society for Kephalonomantic Macrologic Etymology
has suspended my license pending investigation of the "Beaverkill" incident.
Someone else is going to have to take it from here.

Wolfgang