[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Intervale-Cowass or Kohas (Coas) meadows." (Pownal's Map.) [FN-2] The name having been submitted to the Bureau of Ethnology for interpretation, the late Prof. J. W. Powell, Chief, wrote me, as the opinion of himself and his co-laborers: "The name is unquestionably from the Algonquian _Koowa._" Wathoiack, of record as the name of "The Great Rift above Kahoes Falls" (Cal. Land Papers, 134, etc.) is also written _Wathojax, D'Wathoiack,_ and _DeWathojaaks,_ means, substantially, what it describes, a rift or rapid. The cis-locative _De_ locates a place "On this side of the rapid," or the side toward the speaker. The flow of water is between walls of rock over a rocky bed, and the rapids extend for a distance of thirty-five or forty feet. (Ses Kahoes.) Niskayune, now so written as the name of a town and of a village in Schenectady County, is from _Kanistagionne,_ primarily located on the