ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 3I 



Cat-ta-ran'-gus creek and village. Morgan gives the Seneca form 

 as Ga-da'-ges-ga-o, fetid banks. Spafford said of this : '"They 

 have another [name] which signifies stinking shore, or beach, 

 spoken Gah-ta-ra'-ke-ras, a broad, and this they say is the origin 

 of our Cattaraugus, a name perfectly appropriate to the Lake 

 shore." The resemblance to Canawaugus, in sound and meaning 

 will be noticed. On Pouchot's map the creek appears as R. a la 

 terre pnante. The Seneca village of Kadaragawas was mentioned 

 in 1780, and again in 1794 as Catoraogaras. 



Che-na-shun-gau'-tau was a name for the junction of Cold 

 Spring creek and Allegany river in Mary Jemison's early days. It 

 was also written Teu-shun-sesh-un-gau-tau, etc. 



Chi-e-ka-saw'-ne, a place east of the north bend of the Allegany 

 river in 1795. 



Con-e-wan'-go town and creek, in the rapids. A frequent name 

 in differing dialects. It has also been defined walking slowly, and 

 this opposite meaning may have been suggested by the slow prog- 

 ress against a strong current. It is not strictly a definition. A 

 fanciful interpretation is they have been long gone. 



Con-no-ir-to-ir-au-ley creek in Ashford has been defined ugly 

 stream. This has no support. On a recent map it is Connoisa- 

 rauley. 



Da'-u-de-hok'-to, at the bend. Seneca village on the Allegany- 



De-as'-hen-da-qua, place of courts. Ellicbttville. 



De-o'-na-ga-no or Te-o-ni-go-no, cold spring. A Seneca village. 



De-o-no'-sa-da-ga, burned houses. Cornplanter's town was in 

 Pennsylvania. These four are in Morgan's list and many of those 

 which follow. 



Ga-da'-ges-ga-o, is his name for Cattaraugus, fetid banks. 



Ge-ne-sin-guh'-ta, an old town in Elko, mentioned by Mary 

 Jemison. 



Go-wan'-da, a village in the town of Persia. Mr Arthur C. 

 Parker, a nephew of the late Gen. Ely S. Parker who was Morgan's 

 able interpreter, furnishes a welcome note on this name and its 

 origin, saying: " Go-wan-da is a contraction of Dyo-go-wan-deh or 

 O-go-wan-da, meaning almost surrounded by hills or cliffs. The 

 name Dyo-go-wan-deh, (deh being the modern form of the older 

 terminal da) is still used by the Senecas to describe a place below 



