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Chic-ta-wau-ga or Cheektowaga is now the name of a town, but 

 according to Marshall it was originally Jiik'-do-waah'-geh, place of 

 the crab apple, a tree which abounds on Indian reservations. 



Da-deo'-da-na-suk'-to, bend in the shore, is Morgan's name for 

 Smoke's creek, differing but slightly from Marshall's in sound. The 

 latter has De-dyo'-deh-neh'-sak-do for the lake shore above the 

 creek, defined as gravel bend. 



De-as-gwah-da-ga'-neh, place of the lamper eel, is Marshall's 

 name for Lancaster village, after the name of a person who died 

 there. Morgan gave it as Ga-squen'-da-geh, place of the lizard, 

 and it is nearly the same word. This may allude to D. Cusick's 

 story of the furious lizard, which was only destroyed by casting 

 its detached flesh into the fire. This was a Seneca story and the 

 scene was farther west. 



De-dyo'-na-wah'h, the ripple. Middle Ebenezer village. 



De-dyo'-we-no'-guh-do, divided island. Squaw island, from its 

 division by Smuggler's Run. 



De-on'-gote, place of hearing. Murderer's creek at Akron. 

 Seungut is another form of this word. 



De-ose'-lole is the Oneida name for Buffalo. The Tuscaroras call 

 it Ne-o-thro'-ra and the Cayugas De-o-tro'-weh. 



De-yeh'-ho-ga'-da-ses, the oblique ford, is Marshall's name for 

 the old ford at the iron bridge. It must be remembered that his 

 names are of 1865 anfl Morgan's of 1851', making local references 

 now obscure. 



De-yoh'-ho-gah, forks of the river, the junction of Cayuga and 

 Cazenove creek. This common name is equivalent to Tioga. 



Do'-syo-wa, place of basswoods, which abounded at Buffalo. 

 On Pouchot's map the creek appears as R. au boiblanc, equivalent 

 to river of basswoods, and Buffalo may be a corruption of this, 

 the Rev. Asher Wright said this Indian nanie was shortened from 

 Ti-yoos-yo-wa, Oo-sah being the Seneca word for the basswood, 

 often called Whitewood by the French. Mr Strong derived it from 

 0-0-sah, basswood, and de-ya-oh, cluster; making De-ya-oh-sa-oh 

 the original name of Buffalo creek, and Das-sho-wa the present. 

 This would mean bassivoods clustered along the edge of the creek. 

 This is the name of the middle branch passing Jack Berrytown's, 

 once a well known place. It is sometimes rendered Toseoway, 



