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lake is shut in. The Father named it the lake of S. Sacrement." 

 O'Callaghan rendered it the place where the lake contracts, which 

 would be descriptive of Lake Champlain south of Ticonderoga, but 

 not of Lake George, to which Jogues distinctly applied it. There 

 are variants of this to be noticed. 



Ca-ni-a-de-ri-oit is given by Spafford for Lake George : " The 

 Indians call it Canideri-oit, or the tail of the lake," a name more 

 applicable to the contraction south of Ticonderoga, on Lake Cham- 

 plain. 



Ca-ni-a-de-ri-gua-run-te was a name for Lake Champlain. In T. 

 Pownall's description of the colonies he said : " The Indians call it 

 Caniaderiguarunte, the lake that is the gate of the country." Mouth 

 would be more exact, but the meaning is that it was the way of 

 entrance, a fact apparent in military operations. Spafford applied 

 the name to Ticonderoga : " It was called by the Indians, Cania- 

 deri-Guarunte, signifying the mouth or door of the country." It 

 is derived from kaniatare, lake, and the latter part of j iraskaronte, 

 mouth. 



Cay-wa'-not is given by Lossing as the Indian name of Isola 

 Bella in Schroon lake. The interpretation of island is correct, 

 the Seneca form being gawenot and the Mohawk kawenote. 



Chi-non-de-ro'-ga was a name for Ticonderoga in 1691. Holden 

 quotes Pownall as writing this as Cheonderoga, three rivers, but I 

 do not find this in the text of that writer. The meaning undoubt- 

 edly is where waters meet, as at the forks of a river, Sylvester 

 gives it as Chenonderoga, sounding zvaters, which is clearly errone- 

 ous. It differs from some forms only in the initial letters, as will 

 be seen later. 



Co-e'-sa is one of Schoolcraft's names for the Kayaderosseras 

 mountains, probably originated by him from cous, a pine tree, an 

 Algonquin word. 



Couchsachraga, the country about Mt Seward, though it includes 

 a large region farther west. Sylvester thought it meant beaver- 

 hunting country in Iroquois. A. Cusick defined it as their hunting 

 grounds, and it has been called the great and dismal wilderness 

 The name may be from Koghserage, winter, in allusion to the cold 

 climate or the hunting season there. Governor Pownall said : " This 



