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des, flowing into Niagara river east of Grand Island. The present 

 name is a corrupt form. 



Mas-ki-non-gez, from the fish of that name, written and pro- 

 nounced in many different ways. This was an early Chippewa name 

 for Tonawanda creek, some of these Indians having lived on the 

 New -York line nearly two centuries ago. It is usually treated as 

 an Indian name, and occurs in vocabularies as such, but H. W. 

 Herbert (Frank Forester) speaks of "the mascalonge, which owes 

 its name to the formation of the head — masque allonge, long face 

 or snout, Canadian French — ^but which has been translated from 

 dialect to dialect, maskinonge, muscalunge, and muscalinga, until 

 every trace of true derivation has been lost." The Onondagas 

 call the pickerel Che-go-sis, long face. 



Ni-dyio'-nyah-a'-ah, narrow point, is Farmer's Brother's point. 



Ni-ga'-we-nah'-a-ah, small island. Tonawanda island. 



O-gah'-gwaah'-geh, residence of the sunilsh. The mouth of Cor- 

 nelius creek was so called from one of two negro brothers living 

 there. The Indians named this one from a red spot in his eye, 

 O-gah'-gwaah having this meaning. The negro Sunfish is men- 

 tioned in one journal of Sullivan's campaign as being in command 

 of the Indian town of Conesus. 



On-on'-dah-ge'-gah'-geh, place of the Onondagas, according to 

 Marshall. It was at the west end of Lower Ebenezer, and about 

 half of the New* York Onondagas lived there for a long time. 



On-ta-rp-go, a place 2/^ miles southwest of Akron. 



O-s wee-go appeared for Lake Erie in 1726, and was also applied 

 to Grand river in Canada. 



Pon-ti-ac village was so called from a noted western chief. 



Sa-hi-qua-ge was an Iroquois name for Lake Erie in 1701. It 

 was also called Cahiquage. 



See-un-gut, roar of distant waters, is given by French as a name 

 for Murderer's creek at Akron. Morgan called it place of hearing. 



West Seneca is a village and town. 



Sha-ga-nah'-gah-geh, place of the Stockhridges, is Marshall's 

 name for the east end of Lower Ebenezer. 



Swee'-ge, a name by which Lake Erie was known to the English 

 in 1700, and which is equivalent to Oswego. The name may have 



