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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 110

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[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] stone mountain or hill that resounds or echoes--Echo Hill. _Narratschoan,_ the name of Butter Hill, is from _Nâï,_ "It is angular, it corners"--"having corners or angles." (Trumbull.) The letters _-atscho_ stand for _-achtschu,_ Zeisb., _-adchu,_ Natick, "Hill or mountain," and _-an_ is the formative. The combination may be read, "A hill that forms an angle or corner." To recover the Indian name of Butter Hill compensates in some degree for oversight referred to. Brodhead (Hist. N. Y., i, 757, note), it will be seen by those who will examine, made the same mistake in locating _Klinkersberg_ that is referred to above. The "Vischer's Rack" or "Fisherman's Bend" was clearly the bend around West Point. The Donderberg, or Klinkersberg is the elevation immediately north of Stony Point. End of Project Gutenberg's Footprints of the Redmen, by E. M. Ruttenber *** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOOTPRINTS OF THE RED MEN ***