Where the eagle hath her eyrie, and the rocks their vigils keep. " Twice ten thousand shouts shall answer from the river to the sea

!

Fear is failure. Dare, nor falter Craven-hearted, will ye flee ? Go yet on the darkening future, read the sentence of your doom, !

!

As, in letters of the lightning, traced upon a scroll of gloom

" Go

!

the western tribes shall

!

meet you, ye will be an handful then,

And shall perish in your weakness

perish from the minds of

men

!

Like yon rushing highland river, in its mountains wild and free, In the ocean lost forever.

Thus shall be your destiny ."

The Highlands of the Hudson were not called Matteawan The Indians had no names mountains, as stated by Moulton. for mountain ranges, but designated different parts or peaks by In the patent known as the Little Nine names. Partners, one of the more eastern peaks of the Highland range is called Weputing, from Weepitung, literally tooth mountain, different

probably from

its

resemblance to a molar tooth.

approach to a name

The nearest

the range was that which the Indians " the sometimes applied to themselves Wequekachke, or people for

x The Dutch used Hoogland or Hogecountry." land in speaking of the range,' and, like the Indians, gave names

of the

hill

to particular peaks, as Anthony's Nose, Dunderberg, ButtabergJ', etc. Hogeland, or Hoogland, Dutch for Highlands, a name applied to the Highlands of New York. The Indians called