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Updated: June 21, 2025
I have been told though I cannot say that I have heard it myself but I am told, there have been people from the eastward among us of late years, who affect to call "Hell-Gate," "Hurl-Gate," or "Whirl-Gate," or by some other such sentimental, whirl-a-gig name; and these are the gentry who would wish to alter "Satanstoe" into "Dibbleton!"
"Hurl-Gate, Captain Spike, if you please or Whirl-Gate, which some people think is the true sound; but the other way of saying it is awful." "Well, the captain, my old master, always called it Hell-Gate, and I learned the trick from him " "I know he did, and so do all sailors; but genteel people, now-a-days, say nothing but Hurl-Gate, or Whirl-Gate."
You will remember it is called a gate the gate to that wicked place I suppose is meant." "Rose, you amaze me! How can you, a young woman of only nineteen, stand up for so vulgar a name as Hell-Gate!" "Do you think it as vulgar as Hurl-Gate, aunty?" To me it always seems the most vulgar to be straining at gnats."
We do not like changing names to suit their uneasy spirits. "Call the place Hurl-Gate, and go on with your story," said the widow, complacently. "Yes, Madam Budd `Do you go by the Hook, or by Whirl-Gate? said Jones. `By Whirl-a-Gig-Gate, says I. `Well, says he, `I shall go through the Gate myself, in the course of the morning.
We call it Whirl-Gate altogether now," said the relict. "Well, that's new to me," cried Spike. "I have heard some chicken-mouthed folk say Hurl-Gate, but this is the first time I ever heard it called Whirl-Gate they'll get it to Whirligig-Gate next. I do n't think that my old commander, Capt. Budd, called the passage anything but honest up and down Hell-Gate."
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