[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] its conical hills (_ononda_). The late Horatio Hale wrote me: "_Ti-ononda-howe_ is evidently a compound term involving the word _ononda_ (or _ononta_), 'hill or mountain.' _Ti-oneenda-howe,_ in like manner, includes the word _onenda_ (or _onenta_), 'hemlock.' There may have been certain notable hills or hemlocks which as landmarks gave names to the streams or located them. The final syllables _howe,_ are uncertain." (See Di-ononda-howe.) Cossayuna, said to be from the Mohawk dialect and to signify "Lake of the pines," is quoted as the name of a lake in the town of Argyle, Washington County. The translation is correct, substantially, but the name is Algonquian--a corruption of _Coossa,_ "Pine," [FN] and _Gummee,_ "Lake," or standing water. The terms are from the Ojibway dialect, and were probably introduced by Dr. Schoolcraft. * * * * * [FN] It is of record that "the borders of Hudson's River above Albany, and the Mohawk River at Schenectady," were known, in 1710, as "the best places for pines of all sorts, both for numbers and largeness of trees." (Doc. Hist. N. Y., iii, 656.) Mass. _Kowas-'ktugh,_ "pine tree." The name is met in many orthographies.