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food, and the Onondagas still use the word Ha-te-en-tox with the 

 same meaning. Roger Williams gave the Algonquin name : "Mih- 

 tukme'-chakick, Tree-eaters. A people so called (living between 

 three and four hundred miles West into the land) from their eat- 

 ing only Michtu'chquash, that is, Trees ! They are Treereaters, 

 they set no corne, but live on the bark of Chesnut and Walnut, and 

 other fine trees." He confused these with the Mohawks. To live 

 thus implied poverty or lack of skill, and hence the Iroquois use 

 of the name. Golden considered them the Algonquins proper, 

 those who treacherously killed their Mohawk friends at Montreal. 

 In the war that followed the latter were shrewd and well disciplined. 

 " The Adirondacks, by this Means, wasted away, and their boldest 

 Soldiers were almost intirely destroy'd." The village of Adiron- 

 dack is in Newcomb. 



A-gan-us-chi-on was applied to the Adirondack mountains, ac- 

 cording to B. J. Lossing, but this may be doubted, as well as his 

 definition of black mountain range. It is evidently the Pennsyl- 

 vania name of the Iroquois, or Aquanuschioni, now rendered long 

 house. The whole region belonged to them, and in this way the 

 name might be thus applied, though having no reference to moun- 

 tains as such. This use of the name certainly lacks proof. 



Al-gon'-quin mountain is a recent local name, but is that of one 

 of the two great Eastern families. It was at first the name of a 

 tribe on the Ottawa river. Golden made it the alternative of Adiron- 

 dack, and Gharlevoix used it for the Ganadian Indians around Mon- 

 treal and lower down. The Five Nations soon overthrew them, 

 and Gharlevoix said : " We have seen with astonishment one of 

 the most populous and warlike nations on this continent, and the 

 most esteemed of them all either for wisdom or good sense, almost 

 wholly disappear in a few years." The meaning of the name is 

 uncertain, but it is often translated lake, and has also been derived 

 from Algommequin, those on the other side of the river, or the St 

 Lawrence, by Major Powell', but this is clearly erroneous. 



Andiatarocte' was first recorded as a local name by Father 

 Jogues in 1646 : " They arrived the eve of S. Sacrement at the end 

 of the lake which is joined to the great lake of Ghamplain. The 

 Iroquois call it Andiatarocte', as one might say, there where the 



