It is an Iroquoian generic applicable to any principal stream or current river, with the ancient related meaning of '" beautiful river." It is said that the Mohawks called the river Cohohataton. I have not met that name in records. It was quoted by Dr. Schoolcraft as traditional, and of course doubtful. He wrote it Kohatatea, and in another connection wrote " -atea, a valley or landscape." It is suspected that he coined the name, as he did many others. Shatemuck is quoted as a Mohegan^ name, but on very obscure evidence, although it may have been the name of an eel fishing-place, or a great fis'hing-place {-amaug). Hudson called the stream "The River of the Mountains." On some ancient maps it is called " Manhattans River." The Dutch authorities christened it " Mauri tus' River " in honor of their Staat-holder, Prince Maurice. The English recognized the work of the explorer by conferring the title '' Hudson's River." It is a fact established that Verrazano visited New York harbor in 1524, and gave to the river the name " Riviere Grande," or Great River ; that Estevan Gomez, a Spanish navigator who followed Verrazano in 1525, called it " St. Anthony's River," a name now preserved as that of one of the hills of the Highlands, and it is claimed that French traders visited the river, in 1540, and established a chateau on Castle- Island, at Albany.' and called the ^ " Moliegans is an anglicism primarily applied to the small band of Pequots under Uncas."' (Trumbull.) While of the same linguistic stock, neither the name or the history of Uncas's clan should be confused with that of the Mahicani of Hudson's River. * Introduced by the Dutch -- Kastecl. The Indians had no such word. The Delawares called a house or hut or a town that was palisaded, Moenach, and Zeisberger used the same word for " fence " -- an inclosure palisaded around.