"With regard to the Mahican name _Amissohaendiek_ or _Amissohaendick_ (whichever it is) I cannot say much, my knowledge of the Algonquin dialects not being sufficient to warrant me in venturing on etymologies. I remark, however, that 'beaver' in Mahican, as in several other Algonquin dialects, is _Amisk_ or some variant of that word. This would apparently account for the first two syllables of the name. In Iroquois the word for 'beaver-dam' 'has no connection with the word 'beaver,' but it may be otherwise in Mahican." . . . Dr. Brinton wrote: . . . "I have little doubt but that the Mahican term is practically a translation of the Iroquois name. It certainly begins with the element _Amik, Amisk_ or _Amisque,_ 'Beaver,' and terminates with the locative _ck_ or _k._ The intermediate portion I am not clear about. There is probably considerable garbling of the middle syllables, and this obscures their forms. In a general way, however, it means 'Place where beavers live,' or 'are found.'" Father Le June wrote _Amisc-ou,_ "Beaver," an equivalent of _Amis-so_ in the text. Dr. Trumbull wrote: "_Amisk,_ a generic name for beaver-kind, has been retained in the principal Algonquian dialects." The district was a part of Ochsaraga, "The beaver-hunting country of the Confederate Indians," conquered by them about 1624. The evolution from _Ochsera-tongue_ (deed of 1683) appears in Serachtogue (Dongan, 1685); Serasteau (contemporary French); Saractoga (Cornbury, 1703); Saratoga (modern). The _Ossarague,_ noted by Father Jogues, in 1646, as a famous fishing-place, is now assigned to Schuylerville. Aside from its linguistic associations, the Batten Kill is an interesting stream. It has two falls, one of which, near the Hudson, is seventy-five feet and preserves in its modern name, _Dionandoghe,_ its Mohawk name, Ti-oneenda-houwe, for the meaning of which see Hoosick. * * * * * [FN-1] "At a place called the Still Water, so named for that the water passeth so slowly as not to be discovered, yet at a little distance both above and below is disturbed and rageth as in a sea, occasioned by great rocks and great falls therein." (Col. Hist. N. Y., x, 194.) [FN-2] The war in which the Mahicans lost and the Mohawks gained possession of the lands here occurred in 1627, as stated in Dutch records (Doc. Hist. N. Y., iii, 48), sustained by the deed to King George in 1701. (Doc. Hist. N. Y., i, 773.) There was no conquest on the Hudson south of Cohoes Falls.