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called the place Bucephalus, wholly unchanged. The name of the city of Buffalo 

 might have been a modification of the native Indian term for the bison or buffalo, 

 showing, by an affix or final syllable, that it was the name of a place, and not of an 

 animal. In regard to Chicago, the name, it is sad to say, intrinsically has a sig- 

 nificance somewhat ill-savored. It involves as its root element the Otchipway 

 Jikag, which denotes a polecat or skunk, as Baraga informs us in page 572 of his 

 Otchipwe Dictionary, Cincinnati, 1853. If Chicago should ever become a lapsed 

 name, it is to be hoped that its place will be taken by one constructed on an entirely 

 different basis. We hear of this city sometimes as the Windy City. Let now good 

 Otchipwe be found for Windy City, and let that be transformed by a committee 

 of experts into a euphonious place-name for the great capital of Illinois. 



