﻿ABORIGINAL 
  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  7 
  1 
  

  

  derived 
  from 
  He-no, 
  thunder, 
  the 
  Seneca 
  name 
  for 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  Iro- 
  

   quois 
  divinities. 
  The 
  Thunders, 
  however, 
  were 
  more 
  than 
  one 
  and 
  

   were 
  styled 
  grandfathers 
  by 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  who 
  still 
  burn 
  tobacco 
  

   as 
  an 
  offering 
  to 
  them. 
  

  

  He-no'-ga, 
  home 
  of 
  the 
  thunder, 
  is 
  applied 
  by 
  Sylvester 
  to 
  Mt 
  

   Mclntyre, 
  and 
  has 
  the 
  same 
  age 
  and 
  origin. 
  

  

  Hunck-soock, 
  place 
  where 
  everybody 
  fights, 
  is 
  given 
  by 
  Holden 
  

   as 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  upper 
  falls 
  at 
  Ticonderoga, 
  and 
  suiting 
  the 
  his- 
  

   tory. 
  It 
  is 
  an 
  Algonquin 
  name, 
  received 
  from 
  Sabattis. 
  From 
  its 
  

   sound 
  the 
  word 
  is 
  suggestive 
  of 
  a 
  place 
  of 
  wild 
  geese, 
  and 
  this 
  is 
  

   the 
  probable 
  meaning. 
  

  

  Mount 
  Iroquois 
  is 
  a 
  name 
  of 
  recent 
  application 
  from 
  that 
  people. 
  

  

  Ka-non-do'-ro 
  was 
  a 
  place 
  between 
  Crown 
  Point 
  and 
  Corlaer's 
  

   bay, 
  which 
  was 
  visited 
  by 
  Capt. 
  John 
  Schuyler, 
  August 
  16, 
  1690. 
  

   It 
  was 
  some 
  miles 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  former, 
  and 
  W. 
  L. 
  Stone 
  placed 
  it 
  

   at 
  Westport, 
  but 
  it 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  on 
  the 
  west 
  shore 
  a 
  little 
  

   north 
  of 
  Split 
  Rock. 
  

  

  Ka-skong-sha'-di, 
  broken 
  water, 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  a 
  rapid 
  on 
  Opalescent 
  

   river 
  as 
  given 
  by 
  Lossing. 
  This 
  frequent 
  Iroquois 
  word 
  properly 
  

   refers 
  to 
  a 
  succession 
  of 
  falls. 
  Lossing 
  introduced 
  or 
  formed 
  sev- 
  

   eral 
  Indian 
  names, 
  mostly 
  sound 
  and 
  appropriate. 
  

  

  Ka-ya-de-ros'-se-ras 
  mountains 
  and 
  country, 
  variously 
  written 
  in 
  

   the 
  long 
  controversy 
  over 
  this 
  large 
  tract. 
  It 
  lay 
  around 
  and 
  north 
  

   of 
  Saratoga, 
  a 
  grant 
  being 
  fraudulently 
  obtained 
  from 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  

   and 
  successfully 
  contested 
  by 
  them. 
  A. 
  Cusick 
  interpreted 
  the 
  

   word 
  as 
  it 
  stands 
  as 
  a 
  long 
  deep 
  hole. 
  Others, 
  like 
  Sylvester, 
  refer 
  

   it 
  to 
  a 
  lake 
  country, 
  and 
  are 
  well 
  sustained 
  by 
  some 
  variants. 
  Thus, 
  

   in 
  1760, 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  spoke 
  to 
  Sir 
  William 
  Johnson 
  "about 
  that 
  

   large 
  tract 
  called 
  Kaniadarusseras," 
  which 
  plainly 
  includes 
  the 
  

   word 
  for 
  lake. 
  Sylvester, 
  however, 
  in 
  applying 
  this 
  name 
  to 
  the 
  

   mountains 
  said 
  : 
  " 
  They 
  derive 
  their 
  name 
  from 
  the 
  old 
  Indian 
  

   hunting 
  ground 
  of 
  which 
  they 
  form 
  so 
  conspicuous 
  a 
  feature." 
  

  

  Kur-loo'-nah, 
  now 
  interpreted 
  place 
  of 
  the 
  death 
  song, 
  but 
  men- 
  

   tioned 
  by 
  Hoffman 
  merely 
  as 
  a 
  deep 
  valley, 
  is 
  now 
  assigned 
  to 
  White 
  

   Clove, 
  from 
  the 
  murmuring 
  of 
  the 
  pine 
  trees 
  there. 
  Kurloonuh 
  is 
  

   a 
  death 
  song 
  in 
  Gallatin's 
  list. 
  

  

  Me'-tauk, 
  enchanted 
  wood, 
  has 
  been 
  given 
  by 
  Hoffman 
  as 
  derived 
  

  

  