[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Its origin is, of course, uncertain. Reasonably and presumably it was a colloquial form of Katerakts Kil--reasonably, because the falls on that stream would have naturally attracted the attention of the early Dutch navigators, as they have attracted the attention of many thousands of modern travelers. It was the absence of an authoritative explanation that led Judge Benson to inflict upon the innocent streams which now bear them the distinguishing names of _Kat's_ and _Kauter's,_ and to relate that as catamounts were probably very abundant in the mountains there and were naturally of the male and female species, the former called by the Dutch _Kauter,_ or "He cat," and the latter _Kat,_ "She cat," the streams were called by those names. His hypothesis is absurd, but is firmly believed by most of modern residents, who do not hesitate to write _Kauter,_ "He cat," on their cards and on their steamboats, although it is no older than Judge Benson's application. He might have found a better basis for his conjecture in the fact that in 1650, on the north side of the Kat's Kil reigned in royal majesty, _Nipapoa,_ a squaw sachem, while on the other side _Machak-nimano,_ "The great man of his people," held sway; that, as they painted on their cabins a rude figure of a wolf, their totemic emblem, easily mistaken for a catamount, the name of "He cat" was given to one stream, and "She cat" to the other.