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  Muhheakunnuk 
  nation. 
  For 
  the 
  latter 
  he 
  quotes 
  the 
  tradition 
  

   already 
  given. 
  The 
  name 
  may 
  refer 
  to 
  a 
  place 
  for 
  games. 
  

  

  Peoria 
  is 
  a 
  western 
  name 
  for 
  a 
  place 
  in 
  Berne. 
  

  

  Sa-chen-da'-ga, 
  said 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  place 
  near 
  a 
  branch 
  of 
  the 
  Hudson 
  

   at 
  Albany, 
  was 
  probably 
  Sacondaga, 
  overflowed 
  lands, 
  lying 
  much 
  

   farther 
  north. 
  

  

  San'-a-go 
  was 
  placed 
  at 
  Coeymans 
  by 
  Schoolcraft, 
  probably 
  

   intending 
  Sanhagag 
  at 
  Albany. 
  

  

  San-a-ta'-tea 
  for 
  the 
  Hudson 
  at 
  Albany, 
  is 
  probably 
  a 
  personal 
  

   form 
  of 
  Cohatatea, 
  a 
  river. 
  

  

  San-ha'-gag 
  appeared 
  in 
  1630. 
  In 
  that 
  year 
  Van 
  Rensselaer 
  

   bought 
  this 
  tract 
  west 
  of 
  the 
  Hudson, 
  from 
  Smack's 
  island 
  to 
  a 
  

   little 
  above 
  Beeren 
  island. 
  Ruttenber 
  called 
  this 
  Sunckhagag. 
  It 
  

   may 
  have 
  been 
  corrupted 
  from 
  sanaukamuck, 
  land, 
  referring 
  merely 
  

   to 
  the 
  tract, 
  without 
  being 
  a 
  name. 
  Another 
  derivation 
  might 
  be 
  

   from 
  Sunnuckhig, 
  a 
  falling 
  trap. 
  

  

  Sek-tan'-ic, 
  or 
  Mill 
  creek, 
  was 
  mentioned 
  by 
  Schoolcraft, 
  above 
  

   Coeymans. 
  

  

  Ska'-neh-ta'-de, 
  beyond 
  the 
  openings, 
  is 
  Morgan's 
  Iroquois 
  name 
  

   for 
  Albany, 
  afterward 
  transferred 
  to 
  Schenectady, 
  where 
  it 
  was, 
  

   equally 
  appropriate. 
  Dr 
  Mitchill 
  said 
  he 
  learned 
  that 
  Skenectadea, 
  

   or 
  Albany, 
  "signifies 
  the 
  place 
  the 
  nations 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  arrived 
  

   at 
  by 
  traveling 
  beyond 
  the 
  pine 
  trees." 
  It 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  given 
  as 
  

   Skaghnetade, 
  beyond 
  the 
  pines, 
  etc., 
  and 
  Skaneghtada, 
  end 
  of 
  pine 
  

   ivoods. 
  There 
  are 
  numberless 
  forms 
  of 
  the 
  name. 
  David 
  Cusick 
  

   called 
  it 
  Shaw-na-taw-ty, 
  beyond 
  the 
  pineries, 
  and 
  the 
  Onondagas 
  

   give 
  essentially 
  the 
  same 
  definition. 
  Bruyas 
  defined 
  Skannatati 
  

   as 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  side, 
  from 
  askati 
  on 
  one 
  side. 
  

  

  Sne-ackx 
  island, 
  above 
  Albany, 
  is 
  sometimes 
  written 
  Smack's. 
  

  

  Soen-tha'-tin 
  was 
  a 
  place 
  in 
  Coeymans. 
  

  

  Ta-wa-sen'-tha 
  is 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Norman's 
  kill 
  which 
  Schoolcraft 
  

   erroneously 
  defined 
  as 
  the 
  place 
  of 
  many 
  dead. 
  Literally 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  

   waterfall, 
  but 
  by 
  analogy 
  it 
  may 
  signify 
  to 
  lament 
  or 
  shed 
  tears. 
  

   Bruyas 
  gave 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  word 
  and 
  definition. 
  Dr 
  Yates 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  

   have 
  translated 
  it 
  like 
  Schoolcraft, 
  while 
  Gallatin 
  gave 
  the 
  word 
  

   correctly, 
  but 
  called 
  it 
  an 
  abbreviation, 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  not. 
  In 
  the 
  

   Colonial 
  Laws 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  it 
  appears 
  as 
  Tawalsontha, 
  and 
  Rut- 
  

   tenber 
  used 
  this 
  form. 
  

  

  