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knowing where to find it. The latter is the present Onondaga defi- 

 nition. The name belongs to that dialect and is divided as above. 



Kar-is-tau'-tee, an island in the St Lawrence, near St Regis 

 and off the mouth of Salmon river. It is said to have been called 

 after an Indian banished there by his tribe, and is probably derived 

 from the Mohawk word Karistaji, iron. This has been corrupted 

 into Cristutu. 



Ka-wan'-na Lodge, from the Onondaga word kahwhanoo, an 

 island. Schoolcraft makes the Mohawk form of this word kawenote. 



Ken-tsi-a-ka-wa'-ne, big fish river. Salmon river as above. 



Ki-wasa lake, at Saranac lake village. This means a new word, 

 but may have been intended for another similar word for a new 

 boat. 



Ku-sha'-qua lake, in the town of Franklin, has a recently intro- 

 duced name derived from Gaw-she-gweh, a spear. The guidebooks 

 improve on this and make it a beautiful resting place. 



Mad-a-was'-ka lake and camp have another introduced name. 



Mas-ta'-qua has been defined largest river, and is an Algonquin 

 name for Raquette river. Rather irregularly derived from mohsag, 

 great, and tuk, river. 



'Ni-gen-tsi-a-go-a, big fish, for Salmon river, as in a preceding 

 name. In 1754 Father Billiard asked that the St Regis Indians 

 might have a tract from this river on the northeast, to Nigentsiagi 

 river on the southwest. 



Ni-ha-na-wa'-te, rapid river, is a name for Raquette river derived 

 from Tanawadeh. 



On-ehi-o'-ta, the rainboiv, is Zeisberger's form of an Onondaga 

 word now applied to a railroad station near Rainbow pond. 



O-sar-he'-han, difUctdt place, where one is zvorse off for strug- 

 gling. This is Hough's name for Chateaugay, but Sylvester defined 

 it narro-zv gorge- 



O-see-tah lake, gray zuillozu. This is a new name for an expanse 

 of water below Lower Saranac lake. 



Ou-kor'-lah is a name for Mt Seward, usually defined big or 

 great eye. Albert Cusick defined it its eye, and the idea of size 

 does not seem to enter into the word, Schoolcraft giving okara as 

 the Mohawk for eye, and other Iroquois dialects differing little 

 from this. 



