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Show HOW MOUNTAINS WERE NAMED Interesting to Trace Derivation of ttie Famous Ranges of This Country. Adlrondacks: Derived from the Ca-plengra Ca-plengra (Mohawk) Iroquois language. In which the original form Is ratiron-taks, ratiron-taks, meaning "bark eaters." Allegheny: A corruption of the Delaware Del-aware Indian name for Allegheny and Ohio rivers, the meaning of the name being lost. Appalachian: The name was given by the Spaniards under DeSoto, who derived It from the name of a neighboring neigh-boring tribe, the Apalachl. Brinton holds its radical to be the Muscogee apala, "gTeat sea," or "great ocean," and that apalache Is a compound of this word with the Muscogee personal participle "chl," and means "those by the sea." Blue Ridge: So called from the hue which frequently envelops its distant summits. Catsklll: The mountains were called katsbergs by the Dutch, from the number num-ber of wildcats found In them, and the creek, which flows from the mountains, moun-tains, was called Katersklll, "tomcats' creek." dark: The aux arcs was said to refer re-fer to the bends In White river, and was applied to the Ozark mountains, through which the river pursues a wandering course in other words, to the mountains at the bends of the river. Slerre Nevada: A Spanish term slg- nlfylng "snow-clad range." Geological Geolog-ical Survey. |