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Show HOW MOUNTAINS WERE NAMED Interesting to Traea Derivt(ri of ttie Famous Range af Thf Country. Adtrondaoks: Derived from th Ca. nlenga (Mohawk) Iroquoia language, In which the original form Is ratlron-taks, ratlron-taks, moaning "bark eaters." Allegheny: A corruption of the DV-aware DV-aware Indian name for Allegheny and Ohio rivers, the meaning of the name being lost. Appalachian: The niune 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 Muscogew apala, "great sea," or "great ocean.1" and that apalache Is a compound of this word with the Muscogee personal participle "chl," and means "tSose by the sea. Blue Ridge: So called from the hna 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 frxmv the mountains, moun-tains, was called Katerskill, "tomcats' creek." Ozark: The aux arcs was Bald to refer re-fer to the bends in White river, and-was 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 SpanlBh term signifying sig-nifying "snow-clad range." Geological Geolog-ical Survey. I |