The Northeast Highlands ecoregion in New York rise from the Eastern Great Lake Plains, part of the Interior Lowlands of New York, up to the Adirondack Mountains, locally called The Adirondacks, which range form a circular dome some 160 miles in diameter and up to nearly one mile high. Too, the mountain range is contained within the Adirondack Park, covers about 5000 square miles, contain over 200 lakes including Lake George, Lake Placid and source of Hudson river-Lake Tear of the Clouds. Further, there are hundreds of summits in this range.

The name Adirondacks was a Mohawk word, Haderondah, which means eater of trees, was used by the Iroquois as a derogatory name for those who did not practice agriculture and therefore sometimes had to eat tree bard to survive harsh winters. The name was not used for the region until about 1837 when it first used as the name of the mountain range.

Joktan′s Journey On describes how after traveling across the continent with his family, Joktan′s son Sheba, departs company from his father and the remaining family members to travel up the Saint Lawrence river valley where he and his family made his new homeland.

Sheba′s third born son was Mohican who was to become a great chief of all of his father′s people and was a skilled hunter in the nearby mountains, which mountains are now known as the Adirondacks.

Later, when the Iroquois tribes ¹ settled along the river valley, the decendents of Mohican migrated into the mountains. Some time after that, the Mohicans were uprooted again, mostly by he Mohawks who also migrated into the Adirondacks and the Mohicans were forced to move further to the east into the mountains there, now known as the Appalachian Mountains.

Adirondack Park (See Adirondacks above)