ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 6^ 



Tehoseroron, etc., which are variants of the same word. Mr 

 Ketchum said that Te-osah-way was the Seneca and Te-hos-o- 

 ra-ron the Mohawk form of the same word. On the other hand 

 Morgan defined Do'-sho-weh, splitting the fork, which is clearly 

 erroneous. 



Dyo-e'-oh-gwes, tall grass or Hag island. Rattlesnake island. 



Dyos'-hoh, the sulphur spring, is Marshall's name for one near 

 Buffalo. 



Dyo-nah'-da-eeh, hemlock elevation. Upper Ebenezer village for- 

 merly Jack Berrytown. 



Dyos-daah'-ga-eh, rocky hank, Black Rock. Morgan gives it a 

 little differently : De-o'-steh-ga-a, rocky shore. There is an out- 

 crop of limestone there. 



Dyu'-ne-ga-nooh', cold zvater- Cold Spring. 



Dyos-da'-o-doh, rocky island. Bird island. The stone of which 

 it was composed has been removed and utilized. 



Dyo'-ge-oh-ja-eh, zvet grass. Red Bridge. ^ 



E-rie, a cat, was formerly E-ri-eh', a nation destroyed by the 

 Iroquois in 1654. Charlevoix said of the lake : 



The name it bears is that of an Indian nation of the Huron lan- 

 guage, which was formerly seated on its banks, and who have been 

 entirely destroyed by the Iroquois. Erie in that language signifies 

 cat, and in some accounts this nation is called the Cat nation. This 

 name comes probably from the large quantity of these animals 

 formerly found in this country. 



Some French maps have given Lake Erie the name of Conti, but 

 with no better success than those of Conde, Tracy and Orleans, 

 applied to the great lakes farther west. It has several Indian names, 

 as might have been expected. 



Ga-an-na-da-dah, creek that has slate stone bottom', is the east 

 branch of Buffalo creek, passing through the old Onondaga village. 

 The name suggests that people. Marshall said : 



The Senecas, with a few kindred Onondagas and Cayugas, on 

 their arrival here, in 1780, established themselves on the banks of 

 the Buffalo creek. The former chose the south side, and the level 

 bottoms beyond the present iron bridge, east of what is now known 

 as Martin's corners. The Onondagas went higher up, as far as the 

 elevated table-land, near where the southern Ebenezer village was 

 subsequently located. The Cayugas settled north of the Onon- 



