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ably the latter. The guidebooks make Whiteface "Mountain of the 

 White Star." 



Somewhere in the northern part of New York Indian tradition 

 placed the haunts of the Yagesho or Naked Bear, a creature long 

 a scourge to the red men, who united to destroy him. According 

 to Yates and Moulton : "At or near a lake whence the water flowed 

 two ways (or has two different outlets) one on the northerly and 

 the other on the southerly end, this beast had its residence, of which 

 the Indians were well informed. This lake they call Hoossink. 

 (Hoos is a kettle; Hoossink, at the kettle/') This suggests Paradox 

 lake, but it does not exactly describe it. The name and other re- 

 marks of the other authors indicate some pond much farther south. 



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Al-gon'-quin, an old name of recent application here, is a con- 

 traction of the name of a people living on the Ottawa river in 

 Champlain's time, and has been already noticed. No satisfactory 

 meaning has been suggested for it, and few attempts at definition 

 have been made. Algonquin Lodge bears the name here. Major 

 Powell derived it from Algomequin, those on the other side of the 

 river, or St Lawrence, but the name was used in Canada, and the 

 Algoumequins lived on the Ottawa. These facts destroy this inter- 

 pretation, 



Ak-wis-sas'-ne, whfre the partridges drum, is the name of the 

 Indian village of St Regis. Usually the natural interpretation is 

 accepted, of the abundance of these birds there, but some have 

 found another reason in the booming of the ice in the river. The 

 simpler meaning is to be preferred, as in most other cases. The 

 name varies in spelling, yet but little in sound. It was written 

 Aghquessaine in 1768; Hough wrote it Ah-qua-sus-ne, and Morgan 

 • Ah-qua-sos'-ne. Schoolcraft gave Oghkwesea as the Mohawk 

 word for partridge, and it was sometimes used as a personal name, 

 as in the case of the interpreter for Le Moyne, at La Famine in 1684, 

 Lahontan wrote his name Akoesan, and Golden Ohguesse, or the 

 partridge. The Onondaga name for this bird is Noon-yeah-ki-e, 

 loud or noisy step. 



Chateaugay, a name given to the town at its erection, seems 

 French, but for no historic reason. A note on the name is therefore 



