Horican

Twenty-five years after the writing of his novel, Mr. Cooper's conscience began seriously to trouble him, and he publicly confessed, in a preface to "The Last of the Mohicans," that the name Horican had been first applied to the lake by himself, and without any historical authority.

Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 Samuel de Champlain 1601

Why the author called Lake George by another name is thus explained: “Looking over an ancient map, he found that a tribe of Indians the French called Les Honcans lived by this beautiful sheet of water, and thinking the English name too commonplace and the Indian name too hard to pronounce, he chose the 'Horican' as better suiting simple Natty.”

James Fenimore Cooper Phillips, Mary E 1912

Why the author called Lake George by another name is thus explained: "Looking over an ancient map, he found that a tribe of Indians the French called _Les Honcans_ lived by this beautiful sheet of water, and thinking the English name too commonplace and the Indian name too hard to pronounce, he chose the 'Horican' as better suiting simple Natty."

James Fenimore Cooper 1901

The two united to rob the untutored possessors of its wooded scenery of their native right to perpetuate its original appellation of "Horican".

The Last of the Mohicans 1826

As every word uttered by Natty Bumppo was not to be received as rigid truth, we took the liberty of putting the "Horican" into his mouth, as the substitute for "Lake George".

The Last of the Mohicans 1826

Hawkeye calls the Lac du Saint Sacrement, the "Horican".

The Last of the Mohicans 1826

It is said that “Magua,” of this book, “is the best-drawn Indian in fiction; from scalp-lock to moccasin tingling with life” and the tension of the canoe-chase on the Horican.

James Fenimore Cooper Phillips, Mary E 1912

The two united to rob the untutored possessors of its wooded scenery of their native right to perpetuate its original appellation of “Horican.”

The Last of the Mohicans 1826

The crowded mirror of the Horican was gone; and, in its place, the green and angry waters lashed the shores, as if indignantly casting back its impurities to the polluted strand.

The Last of the Mohicans 1826

But the task would exceed our fanciful prerogatives; and, as history, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness, it is probable that Louis de Saint Véran will be viewed by posterity only as the gallant defender of his country, while his cruel apathy on the shores of the Oswego and of the Horican, will be forgotten.

The Last of the Mohicans 1826