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. Eliot wrote Wonkonons, " fort." ^ It is claimed that the walls of this fort were found by Hendrick Christiansen, in i6t4; that they were measured by him and found to cover an area of 58 feet; that the fort was restored by the Dutch and occupied by them until they were driven out by a freshet, occasioned by the breaking up of the ice in the river in the spring of 1617; that the Dutch then built what was

HUDSON'S RIVER, 1609. From Hudson's Chart.)

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river " Norumbega." It may be conceded that possibly French traders did have a post on Castle Island, but " Norumbega " was obviously conferred on a wide district of country. It is an Abnaki term and belonged to the dialect spoken in Maine, where it became more or less familiar to French traders as early as 1535. That those traders did locate trading posts on the Penobscot, and that Champlain searched for their remains in 1604, are facts of record. The name means " Quiet " or '* Still Water," It would probably be applicable to that section of Hudson's River known as " Stillwater," north of Albany, but the evidence is wanted that it was so applied.