ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 'J}^ 



nerable beings. They figure in many early tales, sometimes appear- 

 ing quite close to the Indian villages. 



Ou-no-war'-lah, scalp mountain, is Hoffman's name for Mount 

 Whiteface, The word, however, has more direct reference to the 

 head, but Gallatin has oonoowarluh for scalp. 



Pa-pa-quan-e-tuck, river of cranberries, is applied to Ausable 

 river by Sabittis. Poh-po-kwa, is Abenaki for cranberries. 



Pit-tow-ba-gonk was an Algonquin name for Lake Champlain 

 according to the same Indian guide, and it may be a corruption of 

 the next. Palmer has it Petawa-bouque, defined as alternate land 

 and water, and another form of Petow-pargow or great zvater. 

 Watson made it Petaonbough, lake branching into two. These will 

 be noticed more fully. 



Pe-to-wah-co is Sabele's name for Lake Champlain and seems the 

 original form of the last. It may be derived from petau, entering, 

 and wadchu, a mountain. Hoffman makes pahcho a lake. 



Poke-o-moonshine mountain. I suspect that this odd name is 

 corrupted from the Algonquin pohqui, it is broken, and moosi, 

 smooth. Without contraction it would then be Pohqui-moosi, where 

 the rocks are smoothly broken off. 



Re-gi-ogh'-ne is one form of a name on Lake Champlain. In 

 1763, after ceding a large tract to their Canadian relations, Johnson 

 said the Iroquois claimed " from Regioghne a Rock at the East 

 side of said lake to Oswegatche." Pownall called it Regiochne. 



Rod-si-o — Ca-ny-a-ta-re, Lake Champlain, i. e.. Lake Rodsio. 

 This was mentioned in 1704 as " Corlaer's lake, or the Lake Rod- 

 sio." 



Ro'-ge-o is the same word, and was the name of a rock which 

 marked the boundary of the home territory of the Mohawks on 

 Lake Champlain. All beyond was held by the Iroquois as a body. 

 John H. Lydius testified about this in 1750. For 25 years he had 

 heard from the Mohawks " that the Northward of Saraghtoga as 

 far as the Rock Rogeo did & does belong to the Mohawks which 

 Rock is scituated on the Lake Champlain about ten leagues North 

 from Crown Point, neither hath he ever heard of any other Rock 

 called by the Indians Rogeo, Rogeo being a Mohawk word, & the 

 name of a Mohawk Indian who was drown'd as the Indians say in 

 the Lake Champlain near that Rock long before the Christians came 



