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Ga-nus-sus-geh, place of the long house, the Seneca name of the 

 council house square at Newtown. Both of these names are com- 

 monly known to the white people in the vicinity of the reservation. 



Ga-sko'-sa-da, falls, was the name of an Indian village. 



Ga-sko'-sa-da-ne-o, many falls, was Williamsville. 



Ga-wah'-no-geh, on the island, was Morgan's name for Grand 

 Island. Marshall, however, called it Ga-we'-not, great island. 



Ga-ya-gua'-doh, smoke has disappeared, includes the meaning of 

 Old Smoke's name, after whom the creek was called. Marshall 

 wrote it Ga-yah-gaawh'-doh. 



Gwa'-u-gweh, or Carrying Place village, place of taking out boats. 

 Except in accent this does not differ from the name which Morgan 

 gives to Cayuga, and to which others give the above meaning. 



Hah-do'-neh, place of June berries. Seneca creek, or the south 

 fork of Buffalo creek. This and the next are from Marshall. 



He-yont-gat-hwat'-hah, pictiiresqiie spot. Cazenovia Bluff, east 

 of Lower Ebenezer. 



I-o-si-o-ha is mentioned in the Pennsylvania Archives, under date 

 of 1783, as the Onondaga village at Buffalo creek. It will be rec- 

 ognized as a form of Do'-syo-wa. 



Ka-e-oua-ge-gein appears on Pouchot's map as Eighteenmile 

 creek. 



Kan-ha-i-ta-neek-ge, place of many streams, as translated by 

 Albert Cusick. It was mentioned by David Cusick, in the reign 

 of Atotarho 9, as " Kanhaitauneekay, east of Onondaga village, 

 Buffalo Reservation." David Cusick said, also, that the sixth Iro- 

 quois family, in going westward, " Touched the bank of a great 

 lake, and named Kau-ha-gwa-rah-ka, i. e. A. Cap, now Erie." The 

 translation is correct, and the sixth family was that of the Tus- 

 caroras. 



Ken-jock-e-ty creek was so called by early settlers from an Indian 

 family living on it. John Kenjockety, its head, was said to be the 

 son of a Kah-kwa Indian, and lived on the creek a little east of 

 Niagara street. His Seneca name was Sga-dynh'-gwa-dih, accord- 

 ing to Marshall, or Sken-dyough-gwat-ti, according to Asher 

 Wright, meaning beyond the multitude. French gave the creek's 

 name as Scajaquady, and in a treaty it appeared as Scoy-gu-quoi- 



