Identifier: footprintsofredm02rutt (find matches)
Title: Footprints of the red men. Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Ruttenber, Edward Manning, 1825-1907
Subjects: Indians of North America -- New York Names, Indian -- North America Names, Geographical -- New York (State)
Publisher: (Newburgh, N.Y., Newburgh journal print
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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f this clove. It embodiesthe root IValak prefixed by the radical Tau or Tazv, meaning Open,as an open space, a hollow, a clove, an open field, etc., suffixed by theverb termination -aque, meaning Place, or -dke as Zeisbergerwrote in Wochitdke, Upon the house. The reading in Tawarat-aque is, Where there is an open space; i. e., the clove.^ The lateHon. Edward Elting, of New Paltz, wrote me: The flat rock whichSurveyor Graham marked as the bound, lies on the east side of thedepression of the Shawongunk Mountain Range leading northwest-erly from Mohunk, at the south end of the clove known as MudHook, near the boundary line between New Paltz and Rosendale, say ^ The adjectival formative -alagat, or -aragat, enters into the compositionof several words denoting Hole, or Open space, as Taw-dlachg-at, Openspace, Sag-dlachg-at, So deep the hole. The verb substantive suffix -aque,or -akc (git the sound of A), meaning Place, is entirely proper as a sub-stitute for the verbal termination -at. k \
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HUDSONS RIVER FROM BUTTER HILL TO MAGDALEN ISLAND.(From Map of 1666 i Hudsons river on the west. 155 about half a mile west of the Wallkill \^alley R. R. station at Rosen-dale. I think, but am not certain, that the rock can be seen as youpass on the railroad. It is of the character known as Esopus Mill-stone, a white or gray conglomerate. I cannot say that it bears theSurveyors inscription. It is not often that four boundmarks are met that stand out withthe distinctness of those of the Paltz Patent, or that are clothed withdeeper interest as geological features, or that preserve more dis-tinctly the geographical landmarks of the aboriginal people. Ossangwak is written on Povvnals map as the name of what isknown as the Great Binnenvvater (Dutch, Inland water) in thetown of Lloyd. The orthography disguises the original, whichmay have been a pronunciation of Achsiin (Minsi), Stone, as inOistonzvakiii, read by Reichel, A high rock, or rocky hill. Per-haps the name referred to the rocky bl

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