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Derivation. 
The name Ktaadn is w ithout doubt from the Indian language. I give ; - 
below all that I am able to find in regard to the meaning o£ this word' 
J. Hammond TruiaUall says it signifies "the greatest or chief moun¬ 
tain and ^equivalent Of Kittatinny, the name of a ridge of the Ane- 
ghanies. " "igain he says "in the Abnaki dialects the compouna of 
mountain names is adene. Kit or Ket means great. Tne Abnaki name 
is Ketadene , the greatest or chief mountain." 
Judge C. E. Potter, in an article on the language of the Abnakis, says 
“Ktaadn is doubtless a corruption of kees, "high", and a place . 
Keeraarge is a corruption of this word. The tribes eastward pronoune 
their words harder wnd more gutterally, hence the difference mjsouna. 
Dr. J. A. Chute, who interviewed the Delaware Indians in 1834 ana 
obtained his information from them, gives the meaning of Ktaadn, as 
"on the high hill." ^ 
William Willis states that his informant^ Sockbasman Indian, 
Sxid it meant "large mountain or large thing. , 
Henry D. Thoreau, in his list of Indian names, without giving his 
authority, states that it is said to mean "highest land." . 
L. L. Hubbard, who has published a list of Indian words given to lakes 
streams and mountains of Maine, says it^ means “the biggest mountain 
from Ket or 
IUv urn — * 7 — ^ f u 
k’t, “big" and the inseperable adene , mountain. 
Rev. Eugene Vetromile, missionary to the Etchemin Indians, gives it as 
signifying “the greatest of mountains." 
Joseph Nicolar, a Penobscot Indian, writes as follows ; "The word 
highest hill* It does not mean mountain be.oause mountain l 
means 
called wa$jo. It is 
diffucult thing to explain to one who 
not 
familiar with our language, because it cuts off a great many woras 
which are required to express certain things. For instance: sjoee^gan 
“high", na-ker-s v ee-kuk , “highest" pa-nardn-ek, Aill k e r c ^e 
nardn-ek, “highest hill". When I was a very small boy my peo--- . 
said tha^hill by itself, not connected with any range of mountains, 
the name of Ktardn was given to it. 
Not being familiar with the Indian language I an not able to discu- 
the sub;jeo+- 
but simply give statements as I find them. 
bUdo o 
¥/uile +h 
here 
is som? 
slight difference of opinion, tTiese writers mainly agres 
