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pond near the city, and defined as muddy. This has Httle support, 

 but the name may have some relation to water. 



Qua-ne-los, a creek in Rhinebeck in 1686, suggests the following 

 name. 



Qua-ning-quois was mentioned over against the "Klyne Esopus 

 effly" in 1703. In the same year it was called Quaningquious, a 

 tract in Beekman then patented. The first part of the name refers 

 to anything long or high, as trees or animals. Ounnuhque mearis 

 simply it is high. 



Quer-a-po-quett was the beginning of the Sackett tract. 



Sa-ka-qr.a, in surveying the Little Nine Partners' tract, was men- 

 tioned as a corner of Livingston manor, where a pine tree was 

 mariced. 



Se-pas-co lake in Rhinebeck. In 1695 Beekman asked for a 

 patent for land opposite Esoprs creek and called Sepeskenot. This 

 was in Rhinebeck, and some have placed Sepascot Indians there. 

 The original name suggests a derivation from sepagenum, it spreads 

 out. 



She-nan-do' -ah, an Iroquois name for great plains, has been given 

 to a hamlet in Fishkill. Boyd, however, derives it from a schind- 

 han-dowi, the sprucy stream, or stream passing through spruce 

 pines, suggesting also a derivation from ononda, hill, and goa, 

 great, making it stream Uozving by a great mountain. Both these 

 ingenious conjectures are without foundation. 



She-ko-me-ko is also written Shakameco and Chekomiko. It 

 was the seat of a noted Moravian Indian misssion in 1743, with 

 others near in Connecticut. Zeisberger defines schachhameek as 

 eels, and its name, place of eels, is appropriate. The original word 

 has been derived from schachachgeu, straight, and namees, Hsh. 

 Boyd derives Chicomico from che, great, and comoco, house or 

 inclosed place. 



St's-sing m.orntain and pond are in the town of Pine Plains. On 

 Sarthier's map the mountain is Slising hill, on the line of the Great 

 and Little Nine Partners' tracts. It was sometimes called Teesink 

 movntain, and Tishasinks is another form, from tahshin, he raises 

 himself. 



Tagh-ka-nick mountains have also been termed K'takanahshau. 

 bio; mountains. 



