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high diffs or steep hills, especially if the hills form a bend. The 

 name Gowanda was suggested by the Rev. Asher Wright in 

 response to the request of the people of Lodi who wished a more 

 appropriate and less common name for their village." 



Gus-tan-goh, the Seneca name for the village of Versailles. Mr 

 Parker interprets this under the cliffs. 



He'-soh or Ischua, floating nettles. The ' latter is the present 

 name of a creek and town. It was Asueshan in 1767- 



Je'-ga-sa-nek. Burton creek was thus called after an Indian, 



Jo'-ne-a-dih, beyond the great bend. A Seneca village. 



Kill Buck is not an Indian name of itself, but was that of a 

 prominent Delaware chief of colonial and Revolutionary days, 

 sometimes called Bemineo. It has long been a local name in this 

 county. 



O-da'-squa-dos-sa, around the stone. Great Valley creek. 



O-da'-squa-wa-teh', small stone beside a large one. Little Val- 

 ley creek. It is the same as Squeaugheta. 



O-do-sa'-gi, clear spring water. A new name in Machias, 



O-nogh-sa-da'-go, a Seneca town near Canawago in 1744. A, 

 Cusick defined this as where buried things are dug up. This might 

 seem an allusion to the lead plates buried by the French and dug 

 up by the Indians, were not the name so early, but caches may 

 often have been made there. It seems identical with the name of 

 Cornplanter's town as given above. There are several names nearly 

 the same in sound but differing in meaning. 



O-hi'-o or O-hee'-yo, beautiful river. Allegany river. In Mary 

 Jemison's life it is said, " the word O-hi-o signifies bloody," This 

 erroneous definition was the effect of associating the name with 

 the bloody scenes enacted there. 



O-so'-a-went-ha, by the pines, for Hasket creek, is almost the 

 same as the next. 



Os-wa'-ya creek, pine forest. It flows from Pennsylvania, and 

 Morgan gave the original as O-so'-a-yeh. 



San'-dus-ky postofffce has a name introduced from Ohio. In 

 Potier's Racinnes Huronnes it is Ot-san-doos-ke', there where 

 there is pure water- A Polish trader lived on the bay who was 

 called Sandusky, but he probably had his name from the bay, not 

 the bay from him. 



