places where streams empty them" What their selves. etymologies are," he adds, " I have not been able to ascerexcept as to Skcncctadea y Albany, signifies the place the natives of

Iroquois the

through

arrived

at

pine trees."

by

travelling

Collections

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with about twenty houses; thirty persons were killed and The Indians were not scalped, and about sixty taken prisoners.

occupants of the place at the time of this occurrence. ford, Saratoga

Waterthe island, county, was called Nachtenack, and

known as Long Island, near Waterford, ghiakemiscos. There dialects in is apparently a mixture of the Mahican and Mohawk some of the names in this section of the state. GohoeS) a term still preserved in the falls of the Mohawk, was

not the

name of the falls but of the island below them, and, mean simply a oes, is presumed to

from its diminutive termal

small island. Regarding co as expressing object, the first syl lable may have reference to the falls, in which case 'the render

ing would be, the island at the falls ; or applied to the falls, The would class them as small compared with Niagara.

term is Mahican, and is applied in another form to a district in

New Hampshire, the Coos country. Van der Donck says of the falls, as they appeared in 1656 u The water glides over :

the falls as smooth as if it ran over an even wall and fell over the same.