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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seguis, he said at last, quietly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will accept?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is to become of me, father?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're to come down to civilization as soon as spring opens. I h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor father, said Jean softly, slipping her hand into Donald's," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad he's at rest. His life was a bitter one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, princess, it is better so. That last sledge ride to the camp in response...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, bother!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is clear that we must endeavor to make terms, gentlemen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Once more, Charlie!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why write this book? say you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because it is needed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you ever notice what life and power the Holy Scriptures have when well read? Have you ever heard of the wonderful effects produced by Elizabeth Fry on the criminals of Newgate by simply reading to them the parable of the Prodigal Son? Princes and peers of the realm, it is sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When a minister goes before an audience, it is reasonable to ask and expect that he shall be accomplished in the arts of expression; that he shall be a good writer and speaker. It makes little difference that he knows more than his audience, is better than his audience, has the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reading Club and Handy Speaker," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All art must be preceded by a certain mechanical expertness." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whilst this machine is to him, Hamlet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Breathing" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Holding Breath." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dorsal Breathing, as being the ones used in right manner of breathing. You must try to control the breath by keeping the waist-muscles still; and there should be no feeling of pressure or uneasiness on the lungs, or in the throat or mouth." }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "three times. Repeat the same. Now whisper" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "twice, and speak it aloud the third time; then whisper" }, { "from": "human", "value": "once, and speak it aloud the second and third time; then speak" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The book is on the table, and you, not understanding what place I said, should ask," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where? and I answer," }, { "from": "human", "value": "On the table. Your question would be made with rising, and my answer with falling infl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Merchant of Venice, act 1, scene 3, Shylock says to Antonio," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hath a d[vo]g m[vo]ney? Is it possible a cur can lend three thousand d[vu]cats?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pitch, the chanting and reading of sentences on the conversational and lower tones of the voice; also swelling tone under" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tone," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pitch," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pitch," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "m_a_y. | 4. _e_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "m_e_t. |11^1. _oi_" }, { "from": "human", "value": "_oi_l. 5. _ai_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "_ai_r. | 5. _a_" }, { "from": "human", "value": "_a_t. |8^{14}._ou_" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "right and left. 3." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "turn" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reading Club." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pronounce it, and you will give more force to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "than" }, { "from": "human", "value": "the strongest accent, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "slight accent, but mor...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We ALL of us, in a great _measure_, _create_ our own HAPPINESS, which is not _half_ so much _dependent_ upon SCENES and CIRCUMSTANCES as most _people_ are apt to IMAGINE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is new, he says:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Holding Breath." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fix bay'nets--charge! Like mountain-storm rush on these fiery bands. On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy! hark to that fierce huzza!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Revenge! remember Limerick! dash down the Sassenagh!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I defy him!--let him come!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me see him once before he dies? Let me hear his voice once more? I entreat you, let me enter." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is God that he should hear us While the rushing of the iron wheels is stirred? When we sob aloud, the human creatures near us Pass by, hearing not, or answer not a word. Is it likely God, with angels singing round him, Hears our weeping, any more?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold, there! the other quick replies:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've seen it, sir, as well as you, And must again affirm it blue: At leisure I the beast surveyed, Extended in the cooling shade." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Passing away, passing away!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Holy, holy, evermore, Lord God Almighty! and the eternal courts Thrilled with the rapture; and the hierarchies, Angel and rapt archangel, throbbed and burned With vehement adoration. Higher yet Rose the majestic anthem without pause,-- Higher, with rich magnificence of sound, To...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reading Club," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fulness and Power." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take her, O bridegroom old and gray! Take her to thy protecting arms, With all her youth and all her charms." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, men! now is your time!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Make ready! take aim! fire!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stress;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho, Starbuck and Pickney and Tenterden! Run for your shallops, gather your men, Scatter your boats on the lower bay!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Run! run for your lives, high up on the land! Away, men and children! up quick, and be gone! The water's broke loose! i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Transition." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reading Club," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Make way for liberty!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Peace be unto thee, father, Tauler said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God give thee a good day! The old man raised Slowly his calm blue eyes:...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not yet, not yet: steady, steady! On came the foe in even line, Nearer and nearer, to thrice paces nine. We looked into their eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ready!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Together! shouts Niagara his thunder-toned decree;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Together! echo back the waves upon the Mexic Sea;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Together! sing the sylvan hills where old Atlantic roars;" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho, sailor of the sea! How's my boy,--my boy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's your boy's name, good wife? And in what good ship sailed he?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My boy John,-- He that went to sea: What care I for the ship, sailor? My boy'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hell-hound! my child's by thee devoured," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Praise, praise to Belshazzar, Belshazzar the king! Now what cometh? Look, look! Without menace or call, Who writes with the lightning's bright hand on the wall? What pierceth the king like the point of a dart? What drives the bold blood from his cheek to his heart?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And what the meed? at length Tell asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bold fool! when slaves like thee are tasked, It is my will; But that thine eye may keener be, And nerved to such nice archery, If thou succeed'st, thou goest free. What! pause ye still? Give him ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Song of the Brook." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "on your part, and you will be enabled to do as here is imperfectly suggested. You will do well to select some pieces, and analyze them, as here suggested. In Longfellow's launch of the ship, in his poem" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Building of the Ship," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now for a frolic, now for a leap, Now for a mad-cap galloping chase: I'll make a commotion in every place! So it swept with a bustle right through a great town, Creaking the signs, and scattering down Shutters, and whisking with merciless squalls Old women's bonnets and gingerbr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reading Club." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And how's my boy, Betty?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's bad; he's bad! said Betty." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I begin to be afeerd he'll not be yours any more than mine. All others belong...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said Wardle," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Capital!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Prime!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You skate, of course, Winkle?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ye--yes; oh, yes! replied Mr. Winkle." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reading Club," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of having nothing to do, said the person who mentioned it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Enough, said Spinola," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who made it? --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nobody, answered Sir Isaac:" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reading Club," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand school-master is Practice. To make an artist of yourself in elocution requires much practice and much patience. As Longf...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The heart giveth grace unto every art;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, and cultivated and uncultivated alike will feel it; and this" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Put yourself in his place," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It probably arises from a very sensitive, nervous organization; and, other things being equal, persons of this character make the best speakers. As to the real cause of this feeling, as Lord Dundreary says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's one of those things no f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Every art can elevate itself above a mere handicraft only by being devoted to the expression of lofty thought." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Articulation," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Make no effort to speak, and the habit is to be overcome by long-continued practice and a thorough and complete training in articulation. When reading, be sure and read in phrases; that is, speak a phrase, as a long word, without pause. Stammerers, being usually feeble in health...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have many readers and books that purport to furnish pieces for the use of amateur speakers and juvenile orators. But the great defect in nearly all of them is, that their selections are made from the same series of authors. We are surfeited _ad nauseam_ with 'The boy stood on...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Patricia--!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indian place-names are not proper names, that is unmeaning words, but significant appellatives each conveying a description of the locality to which it belongs." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "broken here and there by the opened patches of corn-lands and the wigwams and villages of the redmen; secondly, to ascertain the meanings of the aboriginal names, recognizing fully that, as Dr. Trumbull wrote," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They were not proper names...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "no" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "no" }, { "from": "human", "value": "no" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Holy place of sacred feasts and dances," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Hudson's River Dialect, radically Lenape or Delaware, as noted by Governor Tryon in 1774. In local names we seem to meet the Upper-Unami and the Minsi of New Jersey, and the Mohegan and the Natick of the north and east, the Quiripi of the Sound, and the dialect of the Connec...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The adjective, wrote Horatio Hale," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In some cases the adjective is split in two, and the substantive inserted, as in _Tiogen,_ a composition of _Te,_" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and _ogen,_" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The great waters or sea, which are constantly in motion, either ebbing or flowing, was written by Chief Hendrick Aupaumut, in his history of the Muhheakun'nuk nation, as the name of Hudson's River, in the Stockbridge dialect, and its meaning. The first word, _Muhheakun,_ was the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At the river." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "wrote Bruyas. Arent van Curler wrote the same name, in 1634, Vyoge, and gave it as that of the Mohawk River, correcting the orthography, in his vocabulary, to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "or channel. It is ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--an enclosure palisaded around. Eliot wrote _Wonkonous,_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Norumbega in Winsor's" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Narrative and Critical History of America. Wrote Dr. Trumbull:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Theue...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Genesis of the United States," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Carte Figurative" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Composition of Indian Geographical Names," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nut Island. Also written _Pachgan,_ as in _Pachganunschi,_"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Description of New York, p. 29. Ward's and Blackwell's islands were sold to the Dutch by the Marechawicks, of Long Island, in 1636-7. Governor's Island was sold in the same year by the Tappans, Hackinsacks and Nyacks, the grantors signing themselves as" }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gull Island," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Small island, from _Tenke_ (Len.)," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Unfruitful, barren. The English adopted the signification," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Barren, which soon became corrupted to" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Island, and _auke,_ Mass.," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Land or place. Dr. O'Callaghan's" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Island home," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Safe place of landing, which it may have been. The name, however, is pretty...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By our people called, wrote Van der Donck in 1652, indicating conference by the Dutch prior to that date. It simply described the passage as evil, vicious, dangerous. Its derivatives are _Spui,_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "_Spuit,_" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A creek called Papparinnemeno which divides New York Island from the main land, so along said creek as it runs to Hudson's River, which part is called by the Indians Shorackhappok, _i. e._ that part of the stream on Hudson's River. In the patent to Hugh O'Neil (1666):" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(Deed of 1638.) _Kaxkeek_ is the orthography of Riker (Hist. of Harlem); and _Kekesick_ that of Brodhead (Hist. New York), in addition to which may be quoted _Keesick_ and _Keakates,_ given as the names of what is now known as Long Pond, which formed the southeast boundary of th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Far in the foldings of the hills winds this wizard stream--sometimes silently and darkly through solemn woodlands.. . . In the neighborhood of the aqueduct is a deep ravine which forms the dreamy region of Sleepy Hollow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The place of el...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "New, young; _Wuske'éne_ Williams," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A youth." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Furnace Woods. By exchange of _l_ and _n,_ it is probably from _Schind,_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Spruce-pine (Zeisb.); _aki,_...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is round." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is, writes Dr. Albert S. Gatschet of the Bureau of Ethnology," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The final _k_ in some of the early forms, indicates pronunciation with the guttural aspirate, as met in _wank_ and w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A meadow, presumably on the neck or point. It is an equivalent of Del. _Lenaskqual,_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Original grass, (Zeisb.), _i. e._ grass which was supposed to have grown on the land from the beginning. (Heck.) Called" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pine --_Cuwé-uchac,_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pine wood, pine logs." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Great Point, and claimed that the last word had been borrowed and applied to Nyack on the opposite side of the river, but this is a mistake as Nyack...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Trap fishing place, or pond. _Amawalk,_ is from _Nam'e-auke,_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fishing-place, (Trumbull.) In the Massachusetts dialect _-pogh_ stands for" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mongochkonnome and Papenaharrow, chiefs of Wiquseskkac...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Endless hills, and to describe the Highlands as a continuation of the Allegheny range, belongs to Anthony's Nose [FN-1] to which, however, it has no very early record application. It is from _Kitschi,_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Principal, greatest, and _-atinny,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Among these aboriginal people, wrote Heckewelder," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(O'Callaghan.) Evidently, however, the name is a corruption of _Sakwihung_ (Zeish.)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At the mouth of the river. The record reads," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A small brook or run called Wigwam brook, but by some falsely...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The bank of a river. In French," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The sea-shore." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The great neck." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Called by the Indians _Seweyruck._ In the same record the land is called _Haseco_ and a meadow _Misosehasakey,_ interpreted by Dr. Trumbull," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Great fresh meadow, or low wet lands. _Haseco_ has no meaning; it is now assigned to Port Chest...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Round Pond. It is now called" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dumpling Pond. The Dutch changed the suffix to _paen,_" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Katonah's land." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Place of ground nuts," }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is named as chief on the same authority. The name, however, has no reference to a pass, path, village or chief; it is a pronunciation of _Wecuppe,_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The place of basswoods or linden trees, from the inner bark of which (_wikopi_)" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A place which our country-men call Vischer's Rack, [FN] that is Fisherman's Bend. (See Woranecks.) On the earlier maps the stream, or its estuary, is named _Vresch Kil,_ or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fresh-water Kil," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where projects a sandy point and the river becomes narrower, there is a place called Esopus, where the Waoranekys, another barbarous nation, have their abode. Later, Esopus became permanent on the west side of the river at Kingston. It is a Dutch corruption of Algonquian _Sepus,...