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serves as a door. This name, however, may not have been used 

 so far down its course. It may be also from Heckewelder's name 

 of Gahonta, the river on which are extensive clear Hats. 



Cook-qua'-go may be derived from Oquaga, but Boyd makes it 

 from kekoa, ozvl, and gowa, great. The Onondaga name for one 

 species is kaekhoowa, meaning big feathery thing. 



Ga'-na-no-wa'-na-neh, great island river; an Iroquois name for 

 the Susquehanna according to Morgan. The Onondaga name is 

 different, \See Otsego county] 



Kil'-la-wog postoffice. 



Nan'-ti-coke creek and town. The Nanticokes were placed at 

 Otsiningo in 1753. According to Hecke welder they called them- 

 selves Nentego. The Delawares termed them Unechtgo, and the 

 Iroquois, Sganiateratiehrohne, tide water people or seashore settlers. 

 The Mohicans also called them Otayachgo, and the Delawares, 

 Tawachquano, bridge over stream, from their dislike to going 

 through the water. They had singular customs and were a south- 

 ern people. 



Occanum (Ok-ka'-num) postoffice and creek is probably mis- 

 spelled. 



O-nan'-no-gi-is'-ka, shagbark hickory, is applied by Morgan to 

 the whole of Tioughnioga river, but it properly belongs only to the 

 upper part and perhaps to a lake at its source, 



On-och-je-ru'-ge,*one of the names of Onoquaga. 



On-oh-agh-wa'-ga is a mountain near the last, 



O-no'-to seems to have been Nanticoke creek. April 2, 1737, 

 Conrad Weiser said they " reached the water called Onoto, and 

 were immediately taken across in a canoe." It was on the north 

 side of the Susquehanna, where several Onondaga families were 

 living. It may be derived from onotes, deep, in reference to the 

 water. 



O-qua'-ga had many forms, applied to a village and creek. 

 Among these are Aughquagey, Onohaghquage, Onoquaga, 

 Ocquango and Ononaughquaga. The last may refer to the moun- 

 tain. A. Cusick defined this as the place of hulled corn soup. It 

 was partly destroyed in 1778, and utterly desolated in 1779, 



Oquaga Lake is the present name of a postoffice. 



Ot-se-nin'-go was the early form of Chenango and the name of 



