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The Adirondack Mountains form a massif in the northeast of Upstate New York in the United States. Its boundaries correspond to the boundaries of Adirondack Park. The mountains form a roughly circular dome, about in diameter and about high. The current relief owes much to glaciation. == History == The earliest written use of the name, spelt ''Rontaks'', was in 1724 by the French missionary Joseph-François Lafitau. He defined it as ''tree eaters''. In the Mohawk language Adirondack means porcupine, an animal which may eat bark. The Mohawks had no written language at the time so Europeans have used various phonetic spellings. An English map from 1761 labels it simply ''Deer Hunting Country'' and the mountains were named ''Adirondacks'' in 1837 by Ebenezer Emmons. People first arrived in the area following the Settlement of the Americas around 10,000 BC. The Algonquian peoples and the Mohawk nation used the Adirondacks for hunting and travel but did not settle. European colonisation of the area began with Samuel de Champlain visiting what is now Ticonderoga in 1609, and Jesuit missionary Isaac Jogues visited the region in 1642. In 1664 the land came under the control of the English when New Netherland was ceded to The Crown. After the American Revolutionary War, the lands passed to the people of New York State. Needing money to discharge war debts, the new government sold nearly all the original public acreage about 7 million acres for pennies an acre. Lumbermen were welcomed to the interior, with few restraints,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://apa.ny.gov/About_Park/history.htm )〕 resulting in massive deforestation. For the history of the area since industrialization, see The History of Adirondack Park. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adirondack Mountains」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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