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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 1
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] 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. * * * * * BY E. M. RUTTENBER, _Author of "History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River."_ * * * * * "Indian place-names are not proper names, that is unmeaning words, but significant appellatives each conveying a description of the locality to which it belongs."--_Trumbull._ * * * * *