Kaunaumeek, an Indian village sixteen miles east of Albany, in the town of Nassau, Rensselaer County, was the scene of the labors of Moravian missionaries, and especially of Missionary Brainerd. It was long known as Brainerd's Bridge, and is now called Brainerds. The name is Lenape (German notation) and the equivalent of _Quannamáug,_ Nar., _Gunemeek,_ Len., "Long-fish place," a "Fishing-place for lampreys." The form, Kaunaumeek, was introduced here by the Moravian missionaries. Scompamuck is said to have been the name of the locality now covered by the village of Ghent, Columbia County, perhaps more strictly the head of the outlet of Copake Lake where an Indian settlement is located on early maps. The suffix, _-amuck,_ is the equivalent of _-amaug,_ "fishing place." _Ouschank-amaug,_ from _Ousch-acheu,_ "smooth, slippery," hence eel or lamprey--"a fishing-place for eels." Copake, the modern form of the name of a lake in Columbia County, is of record _Achkookpeek_ (Doc. Hist. N. Y., iii. 628), meaning, literally, "Snake water," from _Achkook,_ "Snake," and _-péek,_ "Water place," pool or pond. Hendrick Aupaumut, the Historian of the Stockbridge-Mahicans, wrote: "_Ukhkokpeck;_ it signifies snake-water, or water where snakes are abundant." On a map of the boundary line between Massachusetts and New York an Indian village is located at the outlet of the lake, presumably that known as Scompamuck. Kaphack, on Westenhook River, a place described as "Beginning at an Indian burying-place hard by Kaphack," probably means "A separate place"--"land not occupied." The tract began at "an Indian burying-place," and presumably took its name therefrom. _Chépeck,_ "The dead;" _Chépeack,_ "Place of the dead." (See Shapequa.) Valatie, the name of a village in Columbia County, is Dutch. It means "Vale, valley, dale, dell," and not "Little Falls," as rendered in French's Gazetteer. _Waterval_ is Dutch for "Waterfall." _Vallate,_ Low Latin for "valley," is the derivative of _Valatie,_ as now written.