It is not expected that the correction will be adopted, now that the term has passed to the domain of a "proper name." With the aroma of assumed Mohawk origin and the negative "beyond" clinging to it, it will remain at least as a harmless fiction, although the honor due to a Dutch ancestry would seem to warrant a different result. By ancient measurements Schenectady is "about nine miles (English) above the falls called Cahoes" (1792). Shannondhoi and Shenondohawah are record forms of the name of a section of Saratoga County now embraced in Clifton

^Memoirs Long Island Hist. Soc, i, 315.

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Park, Half-Moon, etc. It is a sandy plain running west from the clay bluffs on the Hudson to the foot of the mountain, and extends across the Mohawk into Schenectady County. The name is generic Iroquoi, signifying "Great plain," and as such was their name for Wyoming. Pa., where it is written Schahandomiah (Col. Hist. N. Y., vi, 48), and Skehandozmna (Reichel). Scanandanani, Schenondehowe, Skenandoah, and Shaiiandoah, are among other forms met in application. Skonowe is followed on Van der Donck's map of 1656, by the Dutch legend Schoon Vlaack Land, literally, "Fine, flat land," and for all these 3'ears the name has been accepted as meaning, "Great meadow," or "Great plain." The late Horatio Hale wrote : "The name is readily accounted for by the word Kahenta (or Kahenda), meaning 'plain' -- frequently abridged to Ken fa (or Kenda) -- with the nominal prefix 5" and the augmentative suffix ozva (or owana)." "The great flat or plain in Pennsylvania was called, in the Minsi dialect, 'M'chezvoniink, at (or on) the great plain.' From this word we have the modern name Wyoming. The Iroquois word for this flat was Skahentowane, 'Great meadow (or plain),' a term which was applied also to extensive meadows in other localities and became corrupted to Shenandoah." (Gerard.) Quaquarionu, of record.