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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  '"Judging 
  from 
  analogy 
  this 
  should 
  mean 
  the 
  battle 
  place 
  by 
  the 
  

   water 
  side." 
  The 
  Canaonenska 
  Indians, 
  mentioned 
  in 
  1753 
  as 
  sub- 
  

   jects 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  naturally 
  suggest 
  this 
  name, 
  but 
  as 
  they 
  appear 
  

   with 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  Susquehanna 
  they 
  have 
  no 
  local 
  relations 
  to 
  it. 
  

  

  Hor'-i-con, 
  now 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  a 
  town 
  and 
  small 
  lake, 
  has 
  been 
  

   applied 
  to 
  Lake 
  George 
  and 
  erroneously 
  translated 
  silver 
  waters. 
  

   Cooper 
  bestowed 
  this 
  name 
  on 
  the 
  lake, 
  and 
  said 
  the 
  French 
  and 
  

   English 
  " 
  united 
  to 
  rob 
  the 
  untutored 
  possessors 
  of 
  its 
  wooded 
  

   scenery 
  of 
  their 
  native 
  right 
  to 
  perpetuate 
  its 
  original 
  appellation 
  of 
  

   Horican." 
  French 
  said 
  of 
  this 
  : 
  " 
  However 
  poetic 
  and 
  appropriate 
  

   this 
  designation 
  may 
  appear, 
  or 
  however 
  euphonious 
  it 
  may 
  sound, 
  

   it 
  may 
  be 
  questioned 
  whether 
  a 
  term 
  suggested 
  by 
  fancy 
  alone, 
  and 
  

   never 
  used 
  by 
  the 
  aborigines, 
  will 
  ever 
  find 
  place 
  among 
  the 
  geo- 
  

   graphical 
  names 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  as 
  one 
  of 
  Indian 
  origin." 
  The 
  name 
  

   of 
  the 
  Horikans, 
  however, 
  appears 
  on 
  an 
  early 
  map 
  as 
  an 
  Indian 
  

   people 
  west 
  of 
  Lake 
  George, 
  and 
  Cooper 
  did 
  not 
  invent 
  but 
  trans- 
  

   ferred 
  it. 
  

  

  Kah-che-bon-cook, 
  great 
  root 
  place, 
  is 
  Sabele's 
  name 
  for 
  Jessup's 
  

   Falls. 
  

  

  Ka-yan-do-ros-sa, 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  an 
  Indian 
  name 
  of 
  Glens 
  

   Falls, 
  has 
  been 
  defined 
  by 
  A. 
  Cusick 
  as 
  long 
  deep 
  hole, 
  in 
  allusion 
  to 
  

   the 
  ravine. 
  Slight 
  changes 
  in 
  this 
  name 
  affect 
  the 
  meaning 
  much, 
  

   and 
  it 
  varies 
  greatly. 
  

  

  Mi-con-a-cook, 
  Sabele's 
  Algonquin 
  name 
  for 
  Hudson 
  river, 
  may 
  

   refer 
  to 
  something 
  large, 
  or 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  mekonook, 
  to 
  fight 
  

   with, 
  as 
  in 
  early 
  battles. 
  

  

  Moos-pot-ten-wa-cho, 
  thunders 
  nest, 
  is 
  his 
  name 
  for 
  Crane's 
  

   mountain, 
  the 
  highest 
  peak 
  in 
  Warren. 
  This 
  meaning 
  may 
  be 
  par- 
  

   tially 
  correct, 
  wadchu 
  being 
  a 
  mountain, 
  and 
  pedhacquon, 
  thunder, 
  

   but 
  it 
  might 
  also 
  be 
  from 
  moosompsquehtu, 
  among 
  the 
  smooth 
  

   stones, 
  weathered 
  by 
  ages 
  of 
  exposure. 
  

  

  ( 
  )-i-o'-gue', 
  at 
  the 
  river, 
  where 
  Jogues 
  crossed 
  the 
  Hudson 
  in 
  

   1646. 
  

  

  Oregon 
  is 
  a 
  western 
  name, 
  applied 
  to 
  a 
  place 
  here. 
  

  

  Rogh-qua-non-da-go, 
  child 
  of 
  the 
  mountain, 
  a 
  name 
  recently 
  ap- 
  

   plied 
  to 
  Schroon 
  lake. 
  

  

  Sa-ga-more 
  is 
  of 
  recent 
  application 
  here, 
  being 
  a 
  New 
  England 
  

   title 
  for 
  an 
  Indian 
  king. 
  In 
  the 
  Delaware 
  dialect 
  it 
  is 
  Sagkimau. 
  

  

  