﻿ABORIGINAL 
  PLACE 
  NAMES 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  87 
  

  

  to 
  his 
  Vigil 
  of 
  Faith, 
  published 
  in 
  1842 
  and 
  reaching 
  the 
  fourth 
  

   edition 
  in 
  1845. 
  An 
  enthusiastic 
  woodman 
  and 
  man 
  of 
  letters, 
  he 
  

   gathered 
  much 
  from 
  his 
  Indian 
  guides. 
  The 
  poem 
  in 
  question 
  is 
  

   founded 
  on 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  an 
  Indian 
  girl, 
  whose 
  assassin 
  hopes 
  to 
  be 
  

   slain 
  in 
  turn 
  that 
  he 
  may 
  become 
  her 
  companion 
  in 
  the 
  spirit 
  land, 
  

   rather 
  than 
  his 
  favored 
  rival. 
  The 
  latter 
  follows 
  and 
  guards 
  him 
  

   everywhere 
  lest 
  he 
  should 
  die 
  first 
  and 
  have 
  his 
  wish. 
  This 
  gave 
  

   Hoffman 
  an 
  opportunity 
  for 
  an 
  attractive 
  array 
  of 
  wilderness 
  names. 
  

   The 
  faithful 
  guardian 
  followed 
  his 
  guilty 
  foe. 
  

  

  Midst 
  dripping 
  crags 
  where, 
  foaming 
  soon, 
  

  

  Through 
  soaking 
  mosses 
  steals 
  the 
  Schroon, 
  

  

  To 
  where 
  Peseka's 
  waters 
  lave 
  

  

  Its 
  silvery 
  strand 
  and 
  sloping 
  hills 
  ; 
  

  

  From 
  hoarse 
  Ausable's 
  caverned 
  wave 
  

  

  To 
  Saranac's 
  most 
  northern 
  rills 
  ; 
  

  

  Mid 
  Reuna's 
  hundred 
  isles 
  of 
  green 
  ; 
  

  

  By 
  Tunesasah's 
  pebbly 
  pools 
  ; 
  

  

  And 
  where 
  through 
  many 
  a 
  dark 
  ravine 
  

  

  The 
  triple 
  crown 
  of 
  rocks 
  is 
  seen, 
  

  

  By 
  which 
  grim 
  Towarloondah 
  rules, 
  

  

  Each 
  rocky 
  glen 
  and 
  swampy 
  lair 
  

  

  Has 
  heard 
  his 
  howlings 
  of 
  despair. 
  

  

  Beneath 
  Oukorla's 
  upward 
  eye, 
  

  

  Daring 
  at 
  times 
  to 
  lift 
  his 
  own 
  — 
  

  

  My 
  sudden 
  glance 
  upon 
  him 
  thrown 
  

  

  Has 
  changed 
  into 
  a 
  whispered 
  moan 
  

  

  His 
  gasping 
  prayer 
  "to 
  die" 
  — 
  "to 
  die!" 
  

  

  Where 
  naked 
  Ounowarlah 
  towers, 
  

  

  Where 
  wind-swept 
  Nodoneyo 
  lowers, 
  

  

  From 
  Nessingh's 
  sluggish 
  waters, 
  red 
  

  

  With 
  alder 
  roots 
  that 
  line 
  their 
  bed, 
  

  

  To 
  hoary 
  Wahopartenie 
  — 
  

  

  As 
  still 
  from 
  spot 
  to 
  spot 
  we 
  fled, 
  

  

  How 
  often 
  his 
  despairing 
  sigh 
  

  

  The 
  very 
  air 
  has 
  thickened 
  

  

  On 
  which 
  that 
  fruitless 
  prayer 
  was 
  sped! 
  

  

  Oft 
  in 
  that 
  barren 
  hollow 
  where 
  

  

  Through 
  moss-hung 
  hemlocks 
  blasted 
  there 
  

  

  Whirl 
  the 
  dark 
  rapids 
  of 
  Yowhayle 
  ; 
  

  

  Oft, 
  too, 
  by 
  Tioratie 
  blue, 
  

  

  And 
  where 
  the 
  silent 
  wave 
  that 
  slides 
  

  

  Tessuya's 
  cedar 
  islets 
  through, 
  

  

  Cahogaronta's 
  cliff 
  divides 
  

  

  In 
  foam 
  through 
  deep 
  Kurloonah's 
  vale 
  ; 
  

  

  Where 
  great 
  Tahawus 
  splits 
  the 
  sky; 
  

  

  Where 
  Borr-has 
  greets 
  his 
  melting 
  snows; 
  

  

  By 
  those 
  linked 
  lakes 
  that 
  shining 
  lie 
  

  

  Where 
  Metauk's 
  haunted 
  forest 
  grows 
  ; 
  

  

  And 
  where 
  through 
  many 
  a 
  grassy 
  vlie 
  

  

  The 
  winding 
  Atatea 
  flows 
  ; 
  

  

  Through, 
  often 
  through 
  the 
  fearful 
  pass, 
  - 
  

  

  Reft 
  by 
  Otneyarh's 
  eiant 
  band, 
  

  

  Where 
  splinters 
  of 
  the 
  mountain 
  vast, 
  

  

  Though 
  lashed 
  by 
  birchen 
  roots, 
  aghast, 
  

  

  Toppling 
  amid 
  their 
  ruin 
  stand, 
  

  

  