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"Judging from analogy this should mean the battle place by the 

 water side." The Canaoneuska Indians, mentioned in 1753 as sub- 

 jects of the Iroquois, naturally suggest this name, but as they appear*- 

 with those on the Susquehanna they have no local relations to it. 



Hor'-i-con, now the name of a town and small lake, has been 

 applied to Lake George and erroneously translated silver waters. 

 Cooper bestowed this name on the lake, and said the French and 

 English " united to rob the untutored possessors of its wooded 

 scenery of their native right to perpetuate its original appellation of 

 Horican." French said of this : " However poetic and appropriate 

 this designation may appear, or however euphonious it may sound, 

 it may be questioned whether a term suggested by fancy alone, and 

 never used by the aborigines, will ever find place among the geo- 

 graphical names of the State as one of Indian origin." The name 

 of the Horikans, however, appears on an early map as an Indian 

 people west of Lake George, and Cooper did not invent but trans- 

 ferred it. 



Kah-che-bon-cook, great root place, is Sabele's name for Jessup's 

 Falls. 



Ka-yan-do-ros-sa, said to have been an Indian name of Glens 

 Falls, has been defined by A. Cusick as long deep hole, in allusion to 

 the ravine. Slight changes in this name affect the meaning much, 

 and it varies greatly. 



Mi-con-a-cook, Sabele's Algonquin name for Hudson river, may 

 refer to something large, or be derived from mekonook, to fight 

 zvith, as in early battles. 



Moos-pot-ten- wa-cho, thunder's nest, is his name for Crane's 

 mountain, the highest peak in Warren. This meaning may be par- 

 tially correct, wadchu being a mountain, and pedhacquon, thunder, 

 but it might also be from moosompsquehtu, among the smooth 

 stones, weathered by ages of exposure. 



O-i-o'-gue', at the river, where Jogues crossed the Hudson in 

 1646. 



Oregon is a western name, applied to a place here. 



Rogh-qua-non-da-go, child of the mountain, a name recently ap- 

 plied to Schroon lake. 



Sa-ga-more is of recent application here, being a New England 

 title for an Indian king. In the Delaware dialect it is Sagkimau. 



