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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names

Ruttenber, E.M. Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names in the Valley of Hudson's River, the Valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware. Published in the Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, Vol. VI. 1906. 329 words

Kanendenra, "a hill called by the Indians Kanendenra, otherwise by the Christians Anthony's Nose" -- "to a point on Mohawk River near a htll called by the Indians Kanandenra, and by the Christians Anthony's Nose" -- "to a certain hill called Anthony's Nose, whose point comes into the said river" -- "Kanendahhere, a hill on the south side of the Mohawk, by the Christians lately called Anthony's Nose" -- now known as "The Noses" and applied to a range of hills that rises abruptly from the banks of the Mohawk just below Spraker's. The name is an abstract noun, possessing a specialized sense. The nose is the terminal peak of the Au Sable range. The rock formation is gneiss, covered by 'heavy masses of calciferous limestone containing garnets. "Anthony's Nose," probably so called from resemblance to Anthony's Nose on the Hudson. Etagragon, now so written, the name of a boundmark on the Mohawk, is of record "Esfaragolia, a certain rock." The locative is on the south side of the river about twenty-four miles above Schenectady. (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 121.) The name is an equivalent of Astcnra-koiva, "A large rock." Modern Otstearakozva, Elliot. Astenrogen, of record as the name of "the first carrying place," now Little Falls, is from Ostenra, "rock," and ogen, "divisionem" (Bruyas), literally, "Divided or separated rock." The east end of the gorge was the eastern boundmark of what is known as the "German Flats," which was purchased and settled by a part of the Palatine immigrants who had been located on the Livingston Patent in 1710. The patent to the Germans here was granted in 1723. The description in it reads : "Beginning at the first carrying place,, being the easternmost bounds, called by the natives Astenrogen, running along on both sides of said river westerly unto Ganendagaren, or the upper end [i. e. of the flats, a fine alluvial plain on both sides --of.the river], .1^ being - about twenty- four miles." (Cal.