Excerpt from An Historical Address Delivered Before the Citizens of Springfield in Massachusetts, at the Public May 26 1911 of the Two Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Settlement: With Five Appendices, Viz; Meaning of Indian Local Names, the Cartography of Springfield, Old Place Names of Springfield, Unrecorded Deed of Nippumsuit, Unrecorded Deed of Paupsunnuck In the interpretation of Indian place names so many difficulties have to be overcome that it is not surprising that the best authorities sometimes reach ...
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Excerpt from An Historical Address Delivered Before the Citizens of Springfield in Massachusetts, at the Public May 26 1911 of the Two Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Settlement: With Five Appendices, Viz; Meaning of Indian Local Names, the Cartography of Springfield, Old Place Names of Springfield, Unrecorded Deed of Nippumsuit, Unrecorded Deed of Paupsunnuck In the interpretation of Indian place names so many difficulties have to be overcome that it is not surprising that the best authorities sometimes reach very different conclusions in regard to the same word. Some of the difficulties of translation are: the Indians had no written language; differ ences of dialect of the various tribes; the introduction or omission of a letter by English writers for the sake of euphony; the corruption of place names in old records due to an interpreter. In the translation of Indian names, I believe it to be very essential that a knowledge of the exact locality should be obtained, as it is at present, and if possible as it was in the seven teenth century. Very valuable information is sometimes found by searching local histories and land grants: often a local tradition or early colonial literature will furnish valuable clues. The Indians of New England were very practical in their place names, and almost every name described the locality to which it was affixed. Imagination was rarely if ever used, and any translation expressing this faculty must, I think, be taken with great caution. Our Indians use their imagination, however, in other words, almost poetically. Their name for the Pleiades was Chippapuock, the brood hen; for the belt of Orion, Shwirkacuttowwauog, a Wigwam with three fires; for a trap, Appeh, from Uppacheau, he waits for him. In their names of many plants and flowers great imagination and keen observation are expressed. Kinnicutt's Indian Names of Places in Worcester County. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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