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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 94 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Etagragon, now so written, the name of a boundmark on the Mohawk, is of record "_Estaragoha,_ a certain rock." The locative is on the south side of the river about twenty-four miles above Schenectady. (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 121.) The name is an equivalent of _Astenra-kowa,_ "A large rock." Modern _Otsteara-kowa,_ Elliot. Astenrogen, of record as the name of "the first carrying place," now Little Falls, is from _Ostenra,_ "rock," and _ogen,_ "divisionem" (Bruyas), literally, "Divided or separated rock." The east end of the gorge was the eastern boundmark of what is known as the "German Flats," which was purchased and settled by a part of the Palatine immigrants who