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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  food, 
  and 
  the 
  Onondagas 
  still 
  use 
  the 
  word 
  Ha-te-en-tox 
  with 
  the 
  

   same 
  meaning. 
  Roger 
  Williams 
  gave 
  the 
  Algonquin 
  name 
  : 
  "Mih- 
  

   tukme'-chakick, 
  Tree-eaters. 
  A 
  people 
  so 
  called 
  (living 
  between 
  

   three 
  and 
  four 
  hundred 
  miles 
  West 
  into 
  the 
  land) 
  from 
  their 
  eat- 
  

   ing 
  only 
  Michtu'chquash, 
  that 
  is, 
  Trees! 
  They 
  are 
  Tree-eaters, 
  

   they 
  set 
  no 
  corne, 
  but 
  live 
  on 
  the 
  bark 
  of 
  Chesnut 
  and 
  Walnut, 
  and 
  

   other 
  fine 
  trees." 
  He 
  confused 
  these 
  with 
  the 
  Mohawks. 
  To 
  live 
  

   thus 
  implied 
  poverty 
  or 
  lack 
  of 
  skill, 
  and 
  hence 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  use 
  

   of 
  the 
  name. 
  Colden 
  considered 
  them 
  the 
  Algonquins 
  proper, 
  

   those 
  who 
  treacherously 
  killed 
  their 
  Mohawk 
  friends 
  at 
  Montreal. 
  

   In 
  the 
  war 
  that 
  followed 
  the 
  latter 
  were 
  shrewd 
  and 
  well 
  disciplined. 
  

   " 
  The 
  Adirondacks, 
  by 
  this 
  Means, 
  wasted 
  away, 
  and 
  their 
  boldest 
  

   Soldiers 
  were 
  almost 
  intirely 
  destroy'd." 
  The 
  village 
  of 
  Adiron- 
  

   dack 
  is 
  in 
  Newcomb. 
  

  

  A-gan-us-chi-on 
  was 
  applied 
  to 
  the 
  Adirondack 
  mountains, 
  ac- 
  

   cording 
  to 
  B. 
  J. 
  Lossing, 
  but 
  this 
  may 
  be 
  doubted, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  his 
  

   definition 
  of 
  black 
  mountain 
  range. 
  It 
  is 
  evidently 
  the 
  Pennsyl- 
  

   vania 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  or 
  Aquanuschioni, 
  now 
  rendered 
  long 
  

   house. 
  The 
  whole 
  region 
  belonged 
  to 
  them, 
  and 
  in 
  this 
  way 
  the 
  

   name 
  might 
  be 
  thus 
  applied, 
  though 
  having 
  no 
  reference 
  to 
  moun- 
  

   tains 
  as 
  such. 
  This 
  use 
  of 
  the 
  name 
  certainly 
  lacks 
  proof. 
  

  

  Al-gon'-quin 
  mountain 
  is 
  a 
  recent 
  local 
  name, 
  but 
  is 
  that 
  of 
  one 
  

   of 
  the 
  two 
  great 
  eastern 
  families. 
  It 
  was 
  at 
  first 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  a 
  

   tribe 
  on 
  the 
  Ottawa 
  river. 
  Colden 
  made 
  it 
  the 
  alternative 
  of 
  Adiron- 
  

   dack, 
  and 
  Charlevoix 
  used 
  it 
  for 
  the 
  Canadian 
  Indians 
  around 
  Mon- 
  

   treal 
  and 
  lower 
  down. 
  The 
  Five 
  Nations 
  soon 
  overthrew 
  them, 
  

   and 
  Charlevoix 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  We 
  have 
  seen 
  with 
  astonishment 
  one 
  of 
  

   the 
  most 
  populous 
  and 
  warlike 
  nations 
  on 
  this 
  continent, 
  and 
  the 
  

   most 
  esteemed 
  of 
  them 
  all 
  either 
  for 
  -wisdom 
  or 
  good 
  sense, 
  almost 
  

   wholly 
  disappear 
  in 
  a 
  few 
  years." 
  The 
  meaning 
  of 
  the 
  name 
  is 
  

   uncertain, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  often 
  translated 
  lake, 
  and 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  derived 
  

   from 
  Algommequin, 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  river, 
  or 
  the 
  St 
  

   Lawrence, 
  by 
  Major 
  Powell, 
  but 
  this 
  is 
  clearly 
  erroneous. 
  

  

  Andiatarocte' 
  was 
  first 
  recorded 
  as 
  a 
  local 
  name 
  by 
  Father 
  

   Jogues 
  in 
  1646 
  : 
  "They 
  arrived 
  the 
  eve 
  of 
  S. 
  Sacrement 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  

   of 
  the 
  lake 
  which 
  is 
  joined 
  to 
  the 
  great 
  lake 
  of 
  Champlain. 
  The 
  

   Iroquois 
  call 
  it 
  Andiatarocte', 
  as 
  one 
  might 
  say, 
  there 
  where 
  the 
  

  

  