The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-04-07

can history. 'First in war and first
| in peace" like the illustrious Wash
ington, who lived his life, fought his
battles, won his honors, died and now
sleeps on the banks of this famous
river, which flows quietly on to the
sea past Mount Vernon.
At Harper's Ferry the beautiful
Shenandoah, or, as it was earlier
known, the "Sherrando," comes
sleepily up from the fertile Valley
of Virginia. and adds its waters to
the Potomac.
AS has been said, the railway fol-
lows the Potomac away up into its
headwaters in the mountains, cross
ing many of its tributaries, until the
steep climb to the plateau on which
Deer Park is located is made.
Far down the side of the mountain
from the railway tracks is the little
Savage" river, we'll named, as it
foams and lashes its fury through
crags and precipices in the narrow
valley.
On the nine-mile plateau, following
the railroad from Deer Park through
Mountain Lake Park to Oakland, is
little stream not over ten feet wide,
but of various depths, which cuts its
way cleanly through broad fields and
is as clear as the water in the famous
Springs, wherein it gets its birth.
| This is the headwater to the ''Yough
iogheny" river, which turns its course
to the westward, for it is here the
great Atlantic Mississippi watershed
is formed. Crossing this stream at
Oakland, the Youghiogheny turns
abruptly to the north and flows on to-
ward Pittsburg. AS the decent of
the mountain is made the route is
along the "Cheat" river, which winds
its way through the high-walled
mountains, forming the widest and
grandest scenery Of the Allegheny
mountains
A little further on, at Paramount,
w. Va, the headwaters of the Mo-
nongahela river was crossed.
At Parkersburg the "Ohio" Beau
tiful Water" is crossed. The In
dians certainly did not name this
river Beautiful from the muddy
water which fills its banks. 1t, like
the Mississippi river, is always yell
low. AS the railway passes through
Ohio it crosses consecutively the
Hooking" 'Paint," "Scioto" and
Miami rivers Ell route to Cincin-
natl.
Westward from Cincinnati the
white Water and the white"
rivers are crossed going through In
diana, and the Wabash - river,
which forms the boundary between
Indiana and Illinois.
In crossing the State of Illinois the
"Kaskaskia'' river is the only one of
Fany Importance before the 'Mississip-
PIP at St. Louis is FedseIeSf.
It will be noticed that nearly All OF
| these rivers bear their original Indian
s fn ..xer was called by
the Delaware Indians 'Mohicannet
tuck"-rhe River Of the Mohican.
The Delaware was called Keith
anne" by the Lenappe Indians, mean
ing principal or greatest stream )"
also called exit Hanne'' the ''1arg-
est stream
The Susquehanna river also got its
name from the Delaware Indians,
who called it Observation-Disclosures
hanne," or 'the long reach river" or
"the long way straight river"
The Patapsco river was called "Pa-
tapsqui," meaning back water or
water containing froth," or "a long
stretch in a stream caused by back or
tidewater containing froth.'
The Patuxent, called "Pawtuck-
et," means ''the falls or at the
falls"
The Monocacy was called "Mena-
gasse," meaning "a stream contain
ing many large bends
Potomack-'P Potowmak "Pet-
ahmok means 'they are coming
by water, drawing near in craft or
canoes"
The Wissahickon creek, called
"Misanekhan,'' meaning "cat6sh
stream.
"Gaushowe-hanne," meaning "the
roaring stream" was the Indian
name given the Schuylkill river.
The Youghiogheny, "Yuh-wiak
hanne," means "a stream running
contrary or a roundabout course. :"
This was perhaps because the Yough-
iogheny is the first river running
westward from the watershed.
The Shenandoah river was called
"Schend- -han-dowi," the "sprucy
stream" or 'the stream passing by or
through spruce pines
The Monongahela was called
"Menuangihella,' meaning high
banks breaking off in some place and
tumbling down"
The Ohio, called "Ohee-ye-ga-
humid" means "good or beautiful
river"
Allegheny in Indian was "Wel-
hik-hanne," or "Oolik-hanne," "the
best or fairest stream"
Mississippi is derived from two
words, "Me-ze-wa," /" everywhere, "
and ''Seebe" river, meaning "the
vast or everywhere river" and,
more commonly, ''the father of
waters. - William E. Lowes, in