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  pond 
  near 
  the 
  city, 
  and 
  defined 
  as 
  muddy. 
  This 
  has 
  little 
  support, 
  

   but 
  the 
  name 
  may 
  have 
  some 
  relation 
  to 
  water. 
  

  

  Qua-ne-los, 
  a 
  creek 
  in 
  Rhinebeck 
  in 
  1686, 
  suggests 
  the 
  following 
  

   name. 
  

  

  Qua-ning-quois 
  was 
  mentioned 
  over 
  against 
  the 
  "Klyne 
  Esopus 
  

   effly" 
  in 
  1703. 
  In 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  it 
  was 
  called 
  Quaningquious, 
  a 
  

   tract 
  in 
  Beekman 
  then 
  patented. 
  The 
  first 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  name 
  refers 
  

   to 
  anything 
  long 
  or 
  high, 
  as 
  trees 
  or 
  animals. 
  Qimnuhque 
  means 
  

   simply 
  it 
  is 
  high. 
  

  

  Quer-a-po-qnett 
  was 
  the 
  beginning 
  of 
  the 
  Sackett 
  tract. 
  

  

  Sa-ka-qua, 
  in 
  surveying 
  the 
  Little 
  Nine 
  Partners' 
  tract, 
  was 
  men- 
  

   tioned 
  as 
  a 
  corner 
  of 
  Livingston 
  manor, 
  where 
  a 
  pine 
  tree 
  was 
  

   marked. 
  

  

  Se-pas-co 
  lake 
  in 
  Rhinebeck. 
  In 
  1695 
  Beekman 
  asked 
  for 
  a 
  

   patent 
  for 
  land 
  opposite 
  Esoprs 
  creek 
  and 
  called 
  Sepeskenot. 
  This 
  

   was 
  in 
  Rhinebeck, 
  and 
  some 
  have 
  placed 
  Sepascot 
  Indians 
  there. 
  

   The 
  original 
  name 
  suggests 
  a 
  derivation 
  from 
  sepagenum, 
  it 
  spreads 
  

   out. 
  

  

  She-nan-do'-ah, 
  an 
  Iroquois 
  name 
  for 
  great 
  plains, 
  has 
  been 
  given 
  

   to 
  a 
  hamlet 
  in 
  Fishkill. 
  Boyd, 
  however, 
  derives 
  it 
  from 
  a 
  schind- 
  

   han-dowi, 
  the 
  sprucy 
  stream, 
  or 
  stream 
  passing 
  through 
  spruce 
  

   pines, 
  suggesting 
  also 
  a 
  derivation 
  from 
  ononda, 
  hill, 
  and 
  goa, 
  

   great, 
  making 
  it 
  stream 
  flowing 
  by 
  a 
  great 
  mountain. 
  Both 
  these 
  

   ingenious 
  conjectures 
  are 
  without 
  foundation. 
  

  

  She-ko-me-ko 
  is 
  also 
  written 
  Shakameco 
  and 
  Chekomiko. 
  It 
  

   was 
  the 
  seat 
  of 
  a 
  noted 
  Moravian 
  Indian 
  misssion 
  in 
  1743, 
  with 
  

   others 
  near 
  in 
  Connecticut. 
  Zeisberger 
  defines 
  schachhameek 
  as 
  

   eels, 
  and 
  its 
  name, 
  place 
  of 
  eels, 
  is 
  appropriate. 
  The 
  original 
  word 
  

   has 
  been 
  derived 
  from 
  schachachgeu, 
  straight, 
  and 
  namees, 
  fish. 
  

   Boyd 
  derives 
  Chicomico 
  from 
  che, 
  vreat, 
  and 
  comoco, 
  house 
  or 
  

   inclosed 
  place. 
  

  

  St's-sing 
  mountain 
  and 
  pond 
  are 
  in 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Pine 
  Plains. 
  On 
  

   Sarthier's 
  map 
  the 
  mountain 
  is 
  Slising 
  hill, 
  on 
  the 
  line 
  of 
  the 
  Great 
  

   and 
  Little 
  Nine 
  Partners' 
  tracts. 
  It 
  was 
  sometimes 
  called 
  Teesink 
  

   morntain, 
  and 
  Tishasinks 
  is 
  another 
  form, 
  from 
  tahshin, 
  he 
  raises 
  

   himself. 
  

  

  Tagh-ka-nick 
  mountains 
  have 
  also 
  been 
  termed 
  K'takanahshau. 
  

   big 
  mountains. 
  

  

  