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  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
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  but 
  for 
  their 
  safety 
  they 
  lived 
  mostly 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  Hudson 
  

   and 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  had 
  names 
  only 
  for 
  prominent 
  places. 
  Those 
  

   given 
  by 
  Schoolcraft 
  alone 
  may 
  be 
  of 
  his 
  own 
  invention. 
  

  

  Ach-que-tuck 
  or 
  Aquetuck 
  was 
  an 
  early 
  name 
  for 
  Coeymans 
  

   Hollow. 
  It 
  is 
  usually 
  applied 
  to 
  the 
  flats 
  there, 
  but 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  

   the 
  Hagguato 
  of 
  the 
  map 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Hampshire 
  grants 
  and 
  the 
  

   stream 
  mentioned 
  by 
  Schoolcraft 
  as 
  Hakitak, 
  below 
  Coeymans. 
  It 
  

   may 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  Ahque, 
  he 
  leaves 
  off, 
  and 
  tuk, 
  a 
  river; 
  i. 
  e. 
  a 
  

   river 
  at 
  a 
  boundary. 
  

  

  Ba-sic 
  creek 
  may 
  be 
  a 
  corruption 
  of 
  quassik, 
  a 
  stone. 
  

  

  Ca-ho-ha-ta-te-a 
  is 
  a 
  name 
  assigned 
  to 
  Hudson 
  river 
  by 
  Dr 
  

   Samuel 
  Mitchel. 
  Schoolcraft 
  thought 
  this 
  great 
  river 
  having 
  

   mountains 
  beyond 
  Cohoes, 
  but 
  the 
  word 
  does 
  not 
  refer 
  to 
  the 
  falls 
  

   or 
  include 
  mountains. 
  It 
  is 
  an 
  Iroquois 
  word 
  for 
  river, 
  appearing 
  

   in 
  Zeisberger's 
  dictionary 
  as 
  Gei-hate 
  and 
  Geihutatie. 
  No 
  adjec- 
  

   tive 
  appears 
  in 
  this, 
  but 
  when 
  used 
  alone 
  one 
  was 
  implied. 
  It 
  was 
  

   the 
  river. 
  Hoffman 
  abbreviated 
  it 
  to 
  Atatea, 
  and 
  Sanatatea 
  is 
  a 
  

   personal 
  variation 
  of 
  the 
  word. 
  Sylvester 
  thought 
  it 
  an 
  Algonquin 
  

   name, 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  not. 
  

  

  Ches-co-don-ta 
  is 
  given 
  by 
  Schoolcraft 
  as 
  a 
  Mohawk 
  name 
  for 
  

   Albany, 
  meaning 
  hill 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  council 
  fire. 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  no 
  use 
  

   of 
  this, 
  but 
  he 
  may 
  have 
  derived 
  it 
  from 
  otschista, 
  fire, 
  and 
  onont, 
  

   hill 
  or 
  mountain. 
  

  

  For 
  Co-hoes 
  Morgan 
  has 
  Ga'-ha-oos, 
  which 
  he 
  defines 
  as 
  ship- 
  

   zvrecked 
  canoe. 
  Spafford 
  said 
  [549], 
  "This 
  name 
  is 
  of 
  Indigenal 
  

   origin, 
  and 
  like 
  the 
  most 
  such, 
  has 
  an 
  appropriate 
  allusion 
  : 
  Cah- 
  

   hoos 
  or 
  Ca-hoos, 
  a 
  canoe 
  falling, 
  as 
  explained 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  Indian 
  

   sachem, 
  Brandt." 
  In 
  his 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  Chahoes, 
  about 
  1656, 
  

   Adriaen 
  Van 
  der 
  Donck 
  said: 
  

  

  An 
  Indian 
  whom 
  I 
  have 
  known, 
  accompanied 
  his 
  wife 
  and 
  child, 
  

   with 
  60 
  beaver 
  skins, 
  descended 
  the 
  river 
  in 
  his 
  canoe 
  in 
  the 
  spring, 
  

   when 
  the 
  water 
  runs 
  rapid 
  and 
  the 
  current 
  is 
  strongest, 
  for 
  the 
  pur- 
  

   pose 
  of 
  selling 
  his 
  beavers 
  to 
  the 
  Netherlanders. 
  This 
  Indian 
  care- 
  

   lessly 
  approached 
  too 
  near 
  the 
  falls 
  before 
  he 
  discovered 
  his 
  danger, 
  

   and 
  notwithstanding 
  his 
  utmost 
  efforts 
  to 
  gain 
  the 
  land, 
  his 
  frail 
  

   bark, 
  with 
  all 
  on 
  board, 
  was 
  swept 
  over 
  by 
  the 
  rapid 
  current 
  and 
  

   down 
  the 
  falls, 
  his 
  wife 
  and 
  child 
  were 
  killed, 
  his 
  bark 
  shattered 
  to 
  

   pieces, 
  his 
  cargo 
  of 
  furs 
  damaged. 
  But 
  his 
  life 
  was 
  preserved. 
  

  

  