[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] the great rivers Susquehanna and Dela-2 "The Bear tribe was considered the ware, and their southern.boundaries that leading totem and entitled to the office ridge of hills known in New Jersey by of chief sachem." — Mahican Tradition, the name of Muskanecum, and in Penn-They appear to have been in occupation sylvania, by those of Lehigh, Coghnewago, in the vicinity of Albany. etc." — Hcckeiuelder. 3 The location was about ten miles 4 The classification is not positive, south of Maghackemek, in the present There were other than the Turtle totem state of New Jersey. " The third tribe, on the island. the Wolf, commonly called the Minsi, 6 " Mohcgan is a word, the meaning of which we have corrupted into Monscys, which is not explained by the early writ-had chosen to live back of the two other ers; but if we may trust the deductions tribes, and formed a kind of bulwark for of philology, it needs create little uncer-OF HUDSON'S RIPER. 51 9 argument that the name of the Mahican confederacy was from its prevailing totemic emblem. For dividing the territory of the Mahlcans at RoelofF Jansen's kill, and again at Long Island, there is other than totemic au thority.