The record name, Kadarode, has obviously lost some letters. Its locative suggests its derivation from Kanitare, •"Lake," and -oktc, "End, side, edge," etc. Van Curler wrote here, in 1635, Canozvarode, the name of a village which he passed while walking on the ice which had frozen over the Mohawk ; it was evidently on the side of the stream. Carcnay or Kaneray, Van der Donck's name of the castle, may easily have been from Kanitare.

^ Roode was living in 1683. An additional name was given to him in a Schenectadv patent of that year, indicating that the name by which he was generally known was from his place of residence. He could easily have been •& sachem in 1635.

2IO INDIAN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

The letters d and t are equivalent sounds in the Mohawk tongue. The aspirate k was frequently dropped by European scribes ; it does not represent a radical element. The several record names wliich are met here is a point of interest to students. Oghrackee, Orachkee, Oghrackie, orthographies of the record name of what is now known as Auric's Creek, appear in connection with land patented to John Scott, 1722. In the survey of the patent by Cadwallader Colden, in the same year, the description reads : "On the south side of Mohawk's river, about two miles above Fort Hunter, * * beginning at a certain brook called by the Indians Oghrackie, otherwise known as Arie's creek, where it falls into Maquas river." (N. Y. Land Papers, 164.) In other -words the name was that of a place at the mouth of the brook. Near the brook at Auriesville, which takes its name from that of the stream, has been located the Shrine, "Our Lady of Martyrs,'' marking the presumed rite of the Mohawk castle called by Father Jogues Osseruenon, in which he suffered martyrdom in 1646.^ The Indian name, Oghrackie, has no meaning as it stands ; some part of it was probably lost by mis-hearing.