[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In the town of Carmel, in the county of Putnam, is located Lake Macookpack, now Mahopack^ a term probably signifying simply a large inland lake, from ma large water and aki land. The same name was applied to what is now known as Copake lake in Columbia county. The lake is nine miles in cir cumference, and is situated about eighteen hundred feet above the level of the sea. On one of the islands of the lake is what is called the Chieftain's rock, on which was held, according to tradition, the last council of the tribe. This council was for the purpose of considering the proposition of the English to buy their lands and remove the tribe to the far west. Canopus, the aged sachem of the tribe, urged his followers to reject the proposal; to rally to the defense of their empire, and the graves of their fathers. His impassioned eloquence determined the council against the proposition. JOHN W. LEE, Esq., of New York, has thrown this legend into the following verse : " Once the airy curtain lifted, and the shadows rolling back, Shadows of the years that hover o'er the lake of Mahopac — Showed me Indian warriors gathered in the wooded island dell, Which the rocks, all worn and moss-clad, and the waters guarded well. ********** Then upon the ledge above them, rose an aged, yet stalwart form,