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Qua-cha-nock was a tract west of Lockerman's land. It may 

 mean a running place. 



Qua-jack was a general name for the first four plains at Catskill, 

 which were termed the Christian corn land. 



Qua-ta-wich-na-ack is a waterfall far up the Kaaterskill, on the 

 west line of a tract south of Catskill, which was sold in 1682.. Rut- 

 tenber speaks of this as a small tributary of the Katskill from the 

 south, called Quatawichnaack, understanding a fall to be simply a 

 rapidly descending stream. Elsewhere it is given as Katawignack 

 or Quitquekeenock, a waterfall at the southwest corner of Lov- 

 eridge patent, near the bridge over the Kaaterskill, on the road to 

 High Falls. It has been derived from Ket-ich-u-an, greatest flozv 

 of zvater, adding auke or ack to signify the place of this. 



Sa-pa-na-kock. Ruttenber says the baundary of the Coeymans 

 tract began at Sieskasin, "opposite the middle of the island called 

 by the Indians Sapanakock." This is one of the frequent names 

 derived from roots, and the reference here seems to be to those of 

 the yellow water lily. 



Si-es-ka-sin is a place just mentioned, and may be derived from 

 the word schauxsin, to he zueak or exhaiisted. 



Stich-te-kook or Stighkook was a plain west of Coxsackie. 



Ta-bi-gicht or Tag-po-kigt was one of the two tracts now called 

 Sandy Plains in South Cairo, mentioned in 1691. It .may be de- 

 rived from tapi, there^s enough, or topi, an alder. 



In 1674 Count Frontenac spoke of the depredations of [' the 

 Mohegans of Taracton, a Nation bordering on New Netherland." 

 Father Bruyas wrote also, in 1678, that some Mahingans Tarak- 

 tons had passed one of the Mohawk towns with prisoners. This 

 should be stopped. They are considered Catskill Indians. 



Wa-wan-te-pe-kook is a high round hill in the town of Catskill. 

 The name is also applied to Round Top, a mountain in the south- 

 west part of Cairo, and has been derived from Wo-we-an-tup-auke, 

 round head place. 



Wich-qua-nach-te-kak or Wichquanachtchack was the second of 

 the five tracts. 



HAMILTON COUNTY 



We owe some names of the northern wilderness to the taste and 

 care of Charles Fenno Hoffman, who defined a number in a note 



