[Footnote 36:  Conn.  Col.  Records, i. 434.]

QUSSUK, another word for ‘rock’ or ‘stone,’ used by Eliot and Roger Williams, is not often—­perhaps never found in local names. Hassun or Assun (Chip. assin’; Del. achsin;) appears in New England names only as an adjectival (assune, assini, ’stony’), but farther north, it occasionally occurs as the substantival component of such names as Mistassinni, ‘the Great Stone,’ which gives its name to a lake in British America, to a tribe of Indians, and to a river that flows into St. John’s Lake.[37]

[Footnote 37:  Hind’s Exploration of Labrador, vol. ii. pp. 147, 148.]

7.  WADCHU (in composition, -ADCHU) means, always, ‘mountain’ or ‘hill.’  In Wachuset, we have it, with the locative affix _-set_, ‘near’ or ’in the vicinity of the mountain,’—­a name which has been transferred to the mountain itself.  With the adjectival massa, ‘great,’ is formed mass-adchu-set, ‘near the great mountain,’ or ’great hill country,’—­now, Massachusetts.

‘Kunckquachu’ and ‘Quunkwattchu,’ mentioned in the deeds of Hadley purchase, in 1658,[38] are forms of qunu[n]kqu-adchu, ’high mountain,’—­afterwards belittled as ‘Mount Toby.’

[Footnote 38:  History of Hadley, 21, 22, 114.]

‘Kearsarge,’ the modern name of two well-known mountains in New Hampshire, disguises k[oo]wass-adchu, ‘pine mountain.’  On Holland’s Map, published in 1784, the southern Kearsarge (in Merrimack county) is marked “Kyarsarga Mountain; by the Indians, Cowissewaschook."[39] In this form,—­which the termination ok (for ohke, auke, ‘land,’) shows to belong to the region, not exclusively to the mountain itself,—­the analysis becomes more easy.  The meaning of the adjectival is perhaps not quite certain. K[oo]wa (Abn. k[oo]e) ’a pine tree,’ with its diminutive, k[oo]wasse, is a derivative,—­from a root which means ‘sharp,’ ‘pointed.’  It is possible, that in this synthesis, the root preserves its primary signification, and that ‘Kearsarge’ is the ‘pointed’ or ‘peaked mountain.’

[Footnote 39:  W.F.  Goodwin, in Historical Magazine, ix. 28.]

Mauch Chunk (Penn.) is from Del. machk, ‘bear’ and wachtschunk, ’at, or on, the mountain,’—­according to Heckewelder, who writes ‘Machkschunk,’ or the Delaware name of ‘the bear’s mountain.’

In the Abnaki and some other Algonkin dialects, the substantival component of mountain names is -ADENE,—­an inseparable noun-generic. Katahdin (pronounced Ktaadn by the Indians of Maine), Abn. Ket-adene, ‘the greatest (or chief) mountain,’ is the equivalent of ‘Kittatinny,’ the name of a ridge of the Alleghanies, in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.