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. Ta-was'-sa-giin'-shee, 2 miles from Albany, and near Norman's 

 kill, where the old fort was built [Barber & Hozve]. Ruttenber 

 gives the name of "Tawassgunshee, that of the mound on which 

 Fort Orange was erected." It has been called Lookout hill, which 

 is a fair definition of the Indian name. 



Ti-ogh-sah-ron'-de, place where streams empty themselves, 

 referring to the forks thus made, as at Normian's kill and other 

 places on the Hudson. It is simply a variant of Tioga. Though 

 the name might properly be used in many places, the specific appli- 

 cation of this form is much farther up the river. 



ALLEGANY COUNTY 



In common usage the name of Allegany is quite differently 

 written. In New York the above form is the rule, but in Pennsyl- 

 vania it is as commonly Allegheny. There are other forms. Spaf- 

 ford said of this : ''Alleghany is formed from the Indigenal name of 

 the Ohio, signifying Long or Endless, River or Mountain, for with 

 the addition of these words for either, the same name m'ay be 

 applied to the Alleghanies, or the Alleghany range of mountains 

 and the Ohio river." He thought also that the people of Pennsyl- 

 vania were entitled to the spelling of the word, the mountains being 

 mostly in that state. Heckewelder said : "The Delawares still call 

 the former (Ohio) Al-li-ge-wi Si-pu, the River of the Al-li-ge-wi." 

 Many have thought these the mound-builders. Loskiel said of the 

 river, " The Delawares call this Al-li-ge-wi-si-po, which the Euro- 

 peans have changed to Al-li-ghe-ne, and the Iroquois call it Ohio, 

 that is, the beautiful river." He added : "At present the Delawares 

 call the whole country as far as the entrance of the river Wabasch 

 into the Ohio, Alli-gewi-nengk, that is, 'a land into which they 

 came from distant parts.' " This does not agree with other defi- 

 nitions, and there is no reason to suppose they ever lived in Ohio 

 till the middle of the i8th century. 



Trumbull thought the name might be from Wel-hik-han-ne, best 

 or fairest river, welhik meaning most beautiful. Wu-lach-neu 

 would be the finest river without falls. Allegany, longest or Unest 

 river, and the mountains were often termed endless. Wulik-hanne- 

 sipu, best rapid stream long river, and Wulik-sipu, best long stream, 

 he suggests for origin. He also cited Charles Frederick Post, the 



