La Metairie’s ‘Olighinsipou’ suggests another possible derivation which may be worth mention.  The Indian name of the Alleghanies has been said,—­I do not now remember on whose authority,—­to mean ‘Endless Mountains.’  ‘Endless’ cannot be more exactly expressed in any Algonkin language than by ‘very long’ or ’longest,’—­in the Delaware, Eluwi-guneu.  “The very long or longest river” would be Eluwi-guneu sipu, or, if the words were compounded in one, Eluwi-gunesipu.]

[Footnote 23:  Paper on Indian names, ut supra, p. 367; Historical Account, &c., pp. 29-32.]

[Footnote 24:  Morgan’s League of the Iroquois, pp. 466, 468.]

From the river, the name appears to have been transferred by the English to a range of the “Endless Mountains.”

3.  NIPPE, NIPI (= n’pi; Narr. nip; Muhh. nup; Abn. and Chip. nebi; Del. m’bi;) and its diminutives, nippisse and nips, were employed in compound names to denote WATER, generally, without characterizing it as ‘swift flowing,’ ‘wave moved,’ ‘tidal,’ or ‘standing:’  as, for example, in the name of a part of a river, where the stream widening with diminished current becomes lake-like, or of a stretch of tide-water inland, forming a bay or cove at a river’s mouth.  By the northern Algonkins, it appears to have been used for ‘lake,’ as in the name of Missi-nippi or Missinabe lake (’great water’), and in that of Lake Nippissing, which has the locative affix, nippis-ing, ‘at the small lake’ north-east of the greater Lake Huron, which gave a name to the nation of ‘Nipissings,’ or as the French called them, ’Nipissiriniens,’—­according to Charlevoix, the true Algonkins.

Quinnipiac, regarded as the Indian name of New Haven,—­also written Quinnypiock, Quinopiocke, Quillipiack, &c., and by President Stiles[25] (on the authority of an Indian of East Haven) Quinnepyooghq,—­is, probably, ‘long water place,’ quinni-nippe-ohke, or quin-nipi-ohke. Kennebec would seem to be another form of the same name, from the Abnaki, k[oo]ne-be-ki, were it not that Rale wrote,[26] as the name of the river, ’Aghenibekki’—­suggesting a different adjectival.  But Biard, in the Relation de la Nouvelle-France of 1611, has ‘Kinibequi,’ Champlain, Quinebequy, and Vimont, in 1640, ‘Quinibequi,’ so that we are justified in regarding the name as the probable equivalent of Quinni-pi-ohke.

[Footnote 25:  Ms. Itinerary.  He was careful to preserve the Indian pronunciation of local names, and the form in which he gives this name convinces me that it is not, as I formerly supposed, the quinnuppohke (or quinuppeohke) of Eliot,—­meaning ’the surrounding country’ or the ‘land all about’ the site of New Haven.]

[Footnote 26:  Dictionary, s.v.  ‘Noms.’]

Win-nippe-sauki (Winnipiseogee) will be noticed hereafter.