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Updated: June 22, 2025
"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."
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.
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!"
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."
"That he did that he did and all my arguments and reading could not teach him any better. I proved to him that it was Whirl-Gate, as any one can see that it ought to be. It is full of whirlpools, they say, and that shows what Nature meant the name to be." "But, aunty," put in Rose, half reluctantly, half anxious to speak, "what has gate to do with whirlpools?
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