Place Names of the United States 



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According to a tradition, the name is 

 derived from the occasion of a vessel 

 laden with brantewein (brandy), which 

 was lost in its waters. Other author- 

 ities derive it from Andrew Braindwine, 

 who owned lands near its mouth in early 

 days. A third theory is that the slough 

 near Downington discharged its muddy 

 waters into the' creek, tinging it the 

 color of brandy. A celebrated battle 

 was fought there, which accounts for 

 the name being given to eight places in 

 the country. 



Des Moines ; river, county, and city 

 in Iowa. This name is thought to have 

 been derived from the Indian word 

 mikonang, meaning "the road." This 

 name was applied by the Indians to a 

 place ill the form of Moingona, which 

 the French shortened into Moin, calling 

 the river ' ' riviere des moins. ' ' Finally 

 the name became associated with the 

 Trappist monks, and the river by a spuri- 

 ous etymology was called ' ' la riviere des 

 moines," " the river of the monks." 



Laramie ; county and city in Laramie 

 County, Wyoming, named for Jacques 

 Laramie, a French trapper. 



San Fra?icisco ; bay, county, and city 

 in same county, in California, said by 

 some to have been named for the old 

 Spanish mission of San Francisco de 

 Assisi ; by others to have been named 

 for the founder of the order to which 

 Father Junipero, the discoverer of the 

 bay, belonged. 



Delaware ; river, state, counties in 

 Indiana, Iowa, New York, Ohio, and 



Pennsylvania, named for Lord de la 

 Warr, governor and first captain-gen- 

 eral of Virginia. Many small places also 

 bear this name. A tribe of Indians 

 were known by this name, and in the 

 case of the county in Indiana, the name 

 was given because this tribe had villages 

 within the boundaries of the county. 



Niagara ,• county in New York and 

 river between Lake Erie and Lake Onta- 

 rio. An Indian word meaning " across 

 the neck or strait," or "at the neck." 



Shenandoah ; county and river in Vir- 

 ginia, city in Page County, Iowa, bor- 

 ough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylva- 

 nia, and town in Page County, Virginia. 

 An Indian word said by some to mean 

 "the sprucy stream;" by others, "a 

 river flowing alongside of high hills and 

 mountains ; " and still another authority 

 states that it means ' ' daughter of the 

 stars." 



Massachusetts ; one of the thirteen 

 original states. An Indian word mean- 

 ing " at or near the great hills." Ac- 

 cording to other authorities, "the hill 

 in the shape of an arrow-head," " great 

 hill mouth," " the blue hills." 



Montana; state in the Union. A 

 Latin word meaning " mountainous re- 

 gion," and applicable to this State on 

 account of the nature of its topography. 



Mississippi ; state of the Union, coun- 

 ties in Arkansas and Missouri, and river, 

 one of the largest in the United States. 

 An Indian word meaning ' 'great water ' ' 

 or ' ' gathering in of all the waters ' ' and 

 " an almost endless river spread out." 



AMONG THE GREAT HIMALAYAN 



GLACIERS 



DR WILLIAM HUNTER 

 WORKMAN and Mrs Fanny 

 Bullock Workman, life mem- 

 bers of the National Geographic Society, 

 have returned to India from their third 



expedition into the higher Karakoram 

 Himalayas. The object of their last 

 journey was the exploration of the 

 great Chogo Lungma Glacier in Baltis- 

 tan. This they successfully accom- 



