It is said that the Mohawks called the river _Cohohataton._ I have not met that name in records. It was quoted by Dr. Schoolcraft as traditional, and of course doubtful. He wrote it _Kohatatea,_ and in another connection wrote "_-atea,_ a valley or landscape." It is suspected that he coined the name, as he did many others. _Shate-muck_ is quoted as a Mohegan [FN-1] name, but on very obscure evidence, although it may have been the name of an eel fishing-place, or a great fishing-place (_-amaug_). Hudson called the stream "The River of the Mountains." On some ancient maps it is called "Manhattans River." The Dutch authorities christened it "Mauritus' River" in honor of their Staat-holder, Prince Maurice. The English recognized the work of the explorer by conferring the title "Hudson's River." It is a fact established that Verrazano visited New York harbor in 1524, and gave to the river the name "Riviere Grande," or Great River; that Estevan Gomez, a Spanish navigator who followed Verrazano in 1525, called it "St. Anthony's River," a name now preserved as that of one of the hills of the Highlands, and it is claimed that French traders visited the river, in 1540, and established a _château_ on Castle [FN-2] Island, at Albany, [FN-3] and called the river "Norumbega." It may be conceded that possibly French traders did have a post on Castle Island, but "Norumbega" was obviously conferred on a wide district of country. It is an Abnaki term and belonged to the dialect spoken in Maine, where it became more or less familiar to French traders as early as 1535. That those traders did locate trading posts on the Penobscot, and that Champlain searched for their remains in 1604, are facts of record. The name means "Quiet" or "Still Water." It would probably be applicable to that section of Hudson's River known as "Stillwater," north of Albany, but the evidence is wanted that it was so applied. Had it been applied by the tribes to any place on Hudson's River, it would have remained as certainly as _Menaté_ remained at New York. * * * * * [FN-1] "_Mohegans_ is an anglicism primarily applied to the small band of Pequots under Uncas." (Trumbull.) While of the same linguistic stock, neither the name or the history of Uncas's clan should be confused with that of the Mahicani of Hudson's River. [FN-2] Introduced by the Dutch--_Kasteel._ The Indians had no such word. The Delawares called a house or hut or a town that was palisaded, _Moenach,_ and Zeisberger used the same word for "fence"--an enclosure palisaded around. Eliot wrote _Wonkonous,_ "fort."