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der. This is Hough's name for Moira, and several are from his 

 history of FrankHn county, mostly contributed by Rev. F. X. Mar- 

 coux. 



Sar'-a-nac lakes. No meaning has been definitely assigned this 

 name. "^ 



Sin-ha-lo-nen-ne-pus, Iwrge and beautiful lake, is the name as- 

 signed by Sabattis to Upper Saranac. This seems a very doubtful 

 interpretation, though nepus is used for lake or water at rest. Ac- 

 cording to the same Indian Senhahlone was the name of Platts- 

 burg, making this interpretation yet more doubtful. The guide- 

 books say the Indians called Upper Saranac lake " The Lake of the 

 Silver Sky." What an improvement on sky of brass. Unluckily 

 the Indian word is not given. The same authority says the Indians 

 call the Spectacle lakes, not far off. Wampum zvaters. Ote-ko-a, for 

 wampum, would make a pretty name, but the application may be 

 doubted, there being no reason for the use of wampum here. 



Ta-na-wa'-deh, swift water, is Morgan's name for Raquette river. 



Te-ka-no-ta-ron'-we, village crossing a river, that is, lying on 

 both sides of it, is Hough's name for Malone. 



Te-ka-swen-ka-ro-rens, zvhere they saw boards, is Hogansburg. 



Tsi-tri-as-ten-ron-we, natural dam. Lower falls of Raquette river. 



Wah-pole Sin-e-ga-hu is the name given by Sabattis for the por- 

 tage from Saranac lake to Raquette river. Dr Hough said the 

 latter name, used for a snowshoe, was first applied to the river by 

 the French, from the shape of a wild meadow at its mouth. 



Wau-ke-sha village on Big Tupper lake has a western name. 



Waw-beek Lodge and postoffice on Upper Saranac lake have an 

 Ojibwa name, to which an adjective is often prefixed. It means a 

 rock. 



Win-ne-ba'-go pond has also a western name, usually translated 

 stinking water, but meaning water which has an odor of any kind, 

 offensive or the reverse. The Relation of 1648 said of the nation 

 so named : " These peoples are so called Puants, not by reason of 

 any bad odor which is particularly theirs, but because they report 

 themselves to have come from the shores of a sea very far away, 

 toward the north, the water of which being salt, they named them- 

 selves the people of the stinking water." The eastern Indians used no 

 salt till taught to do so by Europeans, thinking it an evil substance. 



