ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 37 



Te-car'-jik-ha'-do, place of salt. Montezuma, where there are 

 salt springs. 



Tga'-a-ju is mentioned as a Cayuga village by De Schweinitz. 

 This was the name of their principal chief, and towns were some- 

 times named from such men. I do not find this the case here, 

 though Zeisberger fully described his two visits to this chief in 

 1766. It is purely a chief's title, given by Morgan as Da-ga'-a-yo, 

 man frightened. All others define it, he looks both ways, which a 

 frightened man might do. 



The-ro'-tons, another name for Little Sodus bay in 1688. Also 

 Tehirotons. 



Thi-o-he'-ro or Ti-o-he-ro, river of rushes, a name for Seneca 

 river in 1672. It was also the name of a village, and came from 

 the vast beds of flags in the Montezuma marshes and near Cross 

 lake. 



Ti-che-ro, the name of Cayuga lake in Greenhalgh's journal, 

 has the same meaning. He placed the Cayugas 2 or 3 miles from it. 

 Ti-onc'-tong or Tionctora is Cross lake in Cammerhoff's journal- 

 On the map of Charlevoix it is Tiocton, and has other forms. 



Ti-uch-he'-o is another form for Tiohero, in the same journal, 

 for the north end of Cayuga lake. 



Tschoch'-ni-ees, a hamlet on Payne's creek in 1750, appears in 

 this journal. 



Was'-co, iioating bridge, is Morgan's name for Auburn. Bridges 

 were sometimes made by the Iroquois, but usually there was none 

 at Owasco lake, though the trail traversed the beach. When Zeis- 

 berger was there October 30, 1766, he said: "There were only 

 two thin trees, the thickness of a man's leg, thrown over the out- 

 let of a large lake, which had an awful depth, and as we crossed 

 they bent so far down that you would be in water up to your knees, 

 and therefore had to be very careful to keep your balance so as 

 not to fall into the water." The lake had this name at least half 

 a century earlier, pointing out some rude crossing. 



Was'-gwas, long bridge, was Morgan's name for Cayuga bridge, 

 once the longest in the world. 



CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY 



At-to'-ni-at, a place selected for a French post at the middle 

 of the Chautauqua portage. It may be from Attentoniaton 



