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(Bruyas], to ccmse to depart, in allusion to a fresh start, or from 

 attona, stairs, from the ascent. 



- Ca-na-da'-way creek or Ga-na-da-wa-o, running through the 

 hemlocks. Canadawa creek and Dunkirk. Spafford mentioned a 

 portage there. Johnson called it Kanandaweron when he stopped 

 there in 1761. 



Cat-ta-rau'-gus creek and Little Cattaraugus, fetid hanks. 

 Ca-yant'-ha, corn fields, one of Cornplanter's towns, was on the 

 Conewango in 1787, a mile north of the 195th milepost west of the 

 Delaware river. Cayontona and Kiantone seem derived from this. 

 Chaut-au'-qua lake, creek and town. The place now called Port- 

 land had the name of Chatacouit in French documents in 1753- 

 The word has become widely known among summer schools, and 

 has been very differently interpreted. For these reasons some space 

 will be given to it. 



L. H. Morgan wrote it Cha-da'-gweh in Seneca, Cha-da'-qua in 

 -Onondaga and Cayuga, Cha-ta'-qua in Tuscarora, and Ja-da-qua 

 in Mohawk; a as in far. He interpreted it, place where one ivas 

 lost, and his informant was a Seneca chief. Cornplanter is said to 

 have told Judge Prendergast, that " Chautauqua ( Ja-da-queh) sig- 

 nified where a body ascended or was taken up. The Seneca tra- 

 dition is that a hunting party of Indians was once encamped on the 

 shore of the lake. A young squaw of the party dug up and ate a 

 root that create'd thirst, to slake which she went to the lake and 

 disappeared forever. Thence it was inferred that a root grew 

 there which produced an easy death; a vanishing from the afflic- 

 tions of life." This may be easily reconciled with Morgan's defini- 

 tion. The account goes on that Cornplanter alluded to this in 

 speaking against Phelps and Gorham : 



Another, who will not think of dying by the hand of his father or 

 brother, says he will return to Jadaqiieh,.e2it of the fatal root, and 

 sleep with his fathers in peace. Hazeltine, p. 41-42 



Other proposed meanings are place where a child zvas swept 

 azvay by the ivaves, and hag tied in the middle, in allusion to the 

 form of the lake. These may be dismissed. Spafford's definition 

 has this in its favor, that in early Mohawk the word for fog was 

 otsata. He said: 



