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from metai and awuk for some place, but the word simply means 

 a tree. 



No-do-ne'-yo, interpreted hill of the wind by some, is another of 

 Hoffman's names now given to Hurricane Peak. Both these inter- 

 pretations must allow for some corruption of the names, and the 

 last may be simply a great hill. 



O-je-en-rud'-de, where the French proposed a fort in 1700, seems 

 to be Ticonderoga, and the next a variant of this name. 



O-chi-a-ren'-ty. In 1686 Governor Dongan recalled the emigrant 

 Mohawks from the Sault St Louis, and offered to " give them land 

 at the fishery of Ochiarenty," The name closely resembles Ojeen- 

 rudde, and the fishery might naturally be at Ticonderoga falls. 

 Ochia, by itself, means fruit of any kind. 



Ogh-ra'-ro, probably Mt Trembleau point or the mouth of the 

 Ausable,'was a place at which Capt. John Schuyler stopped in 1690. 

 It may be corrupted from owarough, meat, referring to a place 

 where this was abundant. 



On-de'-wa, for Mt Pharaoh on Schroon lake, has been inter- 

 preted black mountain, a palpable error. A good authority defines 

 it coming again, in its use elsewhere. 



O-ne-a-da'-lote was the Oneida name for Lake Champlain accord- 

 ing to Morgan, but he said the meaning was lost. The whole word, 

 however, is simply a lake. 



O-no-ro-no'-rum, ^ald head, is now applied to Bald Peak in North 

 Hudson. It is from the name of an early Mohawk chief, the last 

 syllable of which has been persistently misspelled. He was some- 

 times called Bald Pate. 



On-nis'-ske is a new name for Pharaoh lake, and has been inter- 

 preted zv'hite or silver lake. The word used is far away from the 

 Mohawk, but may have been first written in Onondaga and 

 changed in transmission. In that dialect o-whees-tah is silver, and 

 o-wi-ka-ish-ta, zvhite. Of course no Indian ever called a lake silver, 

 in early days. 



Os-ten-wan'-ne, literally great rock, is a recent name for Indian 

 Pass. 



Ot-ne-yar'-heh, stone giants, is Hoffman's name for the same 

 place. This is the name by which the Iroquois called these invul- 



