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Schroon, from Ska-ne-tagh-ro-wah-na, largest lake, according to 

 Gordon. The definition is good but the derivation may be doubted, 

 and others have been given. 



Se-non-ge-wok, hill like an inverted kettle, according to Hoffman. 

 This is east of Hudson river and 4 miles north of Luzerne. It is 

 also called Segongenon or Mount Kettle-bottom. 



Skmo-wah-co is Sabele's name for Schroon river, though the 

 name may refer to Schroon mountain, wadchu meaning mountain. 



Sknoo-na-pus is his name for Schroon lake, nippis being a lake. 

 Sohke-num-nippe means he pours out water. 



Te-kagh-we-an-ga-ra-negh-ton was a mountain west of Lake 

 George in 1755. Tekagh is locative in this. 



Waw-kwa-onk is Sabele's name for the head of Lake George, 

 meaning place at the end. 



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An-a-quas-sa-cook was the title of a patent issued in 1762, and a 

 village in Jackson retains the name. It may be derived from 

 anaqushauog, they trade, with a reference to early transactions. 



Ca-nagh-si-o-ne is a name for the Two Rocks, 10 miles below 

 Whitehall, but the meaning has no reference to these. It is prob- 

 ably from Konosioni, to show that the land there was really in the 

 Iroquois country. 



In 1766 Governor Pownall spoke of " Lake Champlain, or, as the 



. Indians call it, Caniaderiguarunte, the lake that is the gate of the 



country." This more properly belongs to the lake north of Ticon- 



deroga, but might be applied to the whole. Gallatin gives 



kunnookorloonteh as the Mohawk word for door. 



Caniaderi Oit, tail of the lake, is given by several for Lake Cham- 

 plain and applies to its long and narrow southern end. 



Cos-sa-yu-na, lake at onr pines, is applied to a lake, creek and 

 mountains, and is derived from coos or cowhass, ivhite pine. The 

 full definition was given by some St Francis Indians to Dr Fitch, 

 who restored this name to the lake in Argyle. 



Di-on-o-en-do-ge-ha, a creek .east of the Hudson in 1683, at the 

 northeast corner of the Saratoga tract. 



Di-on-on-dah-o-wa Falls. Lower falls on the Batten kill, near 

 and above the Devil's Caldron, Galesville. This name seems the 



