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CoHOES. Town, city. Mohawk - Ga-ha-oos, canoe shooting over 

 the falls. " Cah-hoos or Ca-hoos, a canoe falling, as explained 

 by the late Indian sachem, Brant." (Spafford) 



CoLONiE. Town. The Colony (Rensselaerwyck). 



CoNNERSviLLE. Cognominal. 



CooKSBURG. Hamlet. Thomas B. Cook of Catskill, 1840, leading 

 man in the Catskill and Canajoharie Railroad enterprise. 



Crescent Station. Hamlet. In the great bend of the Mohawk. 



Delmar. See Adams Station. 



DiSBROWS. Hamlet in town of Westerlo. Name no longer in use. 



Dormansville. Hamlet. Named for Daniel Dorman, first post- 

 master, 1832. 



DuNNSViLLE. Hamlet. Named for Christopher Dunn, original 

 owner. 



DuNSBACK Ferry. Hamlet. Dunsback, early settler. Ferry over 

 Mohawk. 



East Township. Hamlet. 



Eight-Mile creek. Descriptive. 



Elder creek. Descriptive. 



Elsmere. Modern name without appropriateness. 



Fechtberg. Hill in town of Berne. The name is said to have come 

 from a dispute as to leadership among settlers, 1750. 



Feurabush. Hamlet. Dutch: vurenhosch (pronounced viirehosch), 

 fir-bush, or woods. (A. J. F. van Laer) Now known as 

 Jerusalem, the name Feurabush being attached to the railroad 

 station. 



Fly creek. Dutch : Vlaie, meaning a meadow. Same as Vly. 



" This word vly, in the records also written vley and vleye, 

 is a puzzling word in the Dutch language. It is obsolete at 

 present and its real meaning is unlcnown to me. The word 

 seems to apply in nearly all cases to low, marshy land, or to salt 

 meadows, and I suspect that it is nothing but a contraction of 

 valey, valley, or low land. At all events I should say that the 

 meaning was low land, rather than meadow. Vlaie, is probably 

 a later corruption, which, as far as I remember, does not occur 

 in the. Dutch records." (A. J. F. van Laer) 



Font Grove. Modern name. 



Foxenkill = Foxes stream. 



French's Mills. Hamlet. Named for Abel French, miller. 



Fuller. Hamlet. Named for Major John Fuller. 



