Hell Gate
Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 23
(-gāt,) in New York, a narrow channel of the East River, abt. 7 m. N.N.E. of New York city, being the nearest pa age into the Sound. Its navigation was formerly dangerous on account of the eddies produced under certain conditions of the tides, -whence its old Dutch name of Horll-gatt, or " whirlpool pa ," whereof the present term is a corruption. The rocks facing its entrance into the East River are in course of removal by submarine blasting [s. 447]
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