O'Callaghan says that the word is a corruption of the Algon " the quin Kaaks-0&, from Kaak, a goose, and aki, locality, of the wild goose." Another interpretation is Cookcountry sockuy,

signifying

owl-hoot.

The most satisfactory explana

tion will be found

perhaps in co, object, and ak'i, land, the reference being to the clay banks which rise there to the height of

100 feet, and form a conspicuous object in the river scenery. Neweskeke or Naveskeek, about ten miles south of Albany, is described as being a corner or neck of land having a fresh water river running to the east of it.

APPENDIX.

Coeyman's Hollow was called Acbquetuck, and the creek, Another creek is still known by the Indian name,

Onisketkau.

Habnakrois.

Coeyman's Creek.

Sunckbagag is recorded as the name of the tract from Beeren The boundaries extended two days'

island to Smack's island. 1

Tawalsontba was the Mabican name journey into the interior. of the creek now called Norman's kil, in the town of Bethle

hem, and Tawassgunsbee that of the mound on which Fort Orange was erected. Schoolcraft gives Tawasentba as the orthography of the former term and regards it as signifying " the place of the many dead," adding that the Mohawks once

had a village there, and that in excavating the road to Bethlehem an Indian burial ground was opened. But the Mohawks never had a village there, and the interpretation is in apparent violanames. have yet to find the name of an Indian burial ground, and espe lation of the custom of the Indians in bestowing