and south ends respectively, but from the fact that the Indians had no titles for entire mountain ranges. The name is pro

nounced Toh-kon-ick, and is said to have been given to a spring on the west side of the mountains in Copake. Copake lake was called Kookpake. (See Mabopac.} Scompamuck was the

name of the locality now covered by the village of Ghent.

" where the IVawanaquassick, heaps of stones lye j" has its in wa-wa na ; plural signifies good ; quas is stone or stones, and

The name is without commemorative character. locality. Of the custom referred to in the quotation, the Rev. Gideon

ick

Hawley writes

:

" We came to a resting

our horses, and slaked our

thirst at

place,

and breathed

the stream, when we per

ceived our Indian looking for a stone, which having found, he cast to a heap, which for ages

had been accumulating by pas

sengers like him, who was our guide.

observed that

rite.

He answered that

We inquired why he

his

father practised

it

But he did not like to talk on the sub I have observed in ject. every part of the country, and among every tribe of Indians, and among those where I now am in and enjoined it on him.

a particular manner, such heaps of stones or sticks col lected on the like occasion as the above. The largest heapever observed, is that large collection of small stones

on the

mountain

between Stockbridge and Great Barringit is termed, between Plymouth and Sandwich, to which stones and sticks are always ton.