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ently between Hurricane mountain and White Face. It may have 

 its name from nashin, it makes an angle. 



Nu-shi-o'-na was a valley mentioned by Hoffman between Long 

 lake and the head waters of the Sacondaga. Nehsoha is Gallatin's 

 word for night. 



Pi-se'-co lake is said to have been thus called from an Indian 

 named Pezeeko, from pisco, a fish. If so the word is seldom found 

 with this meaning, but agrees better with a word referring to miry 

 places. Spafford said : /' Peezeko lake bears the name of a singu- 

 lar and venerable old Indian, who lived alone, for a long time, on 

 its shores, a sort of hermit from the ranks of savage life, for some 

 cause unknown to the few white people who knew him." French 

 said it was named by Joshua Brown, a surveyor, from an Indian 

 chief of his acquaintance. The name is Algonquin, and the O jib- 

 was call the buffalo Pe-zhe-ke. 



Pi-wa-ket or Pickwacket lake, from pewe, little, and ohkit, place. 



Sabattis mountain has its name from an Indian guide, but is not 

 an Indian word, being abbreviated from St Baptist. 



Sa-con-da'-ga, the drozvned or swampy land, has been mentioned, 

 and the river had its name from this, 



Ta-co-la'-go lake has an introduced name. 



Tes-su'-3'a is described by Hoffman as having cedar islands, and 

 the name is contrac|ed from that for white cedar, termed by the 

 Onondagas feather leaf. 



Ti-o-ra-tie, the sky or skylike, as defined by Hoffman, who calls 

 it a Mohawk word and refers it to a lake. The word for sky is 

 quite different, but the Cayuga word teyohate, or light, is probably 

 the one intended, differing from the equivalent Mohawk word 

 teyoswathe. Zeisberger defines the Onondaga word tiorate as a 

 small wind. 



To-war-loon'-dah, hill of storms, Hoffman said was supposed to- 

 be Mt Emmons, and to this the name is now usually assigned, 

 though Sylvester applies it to Blue mountain. Towaloondeh is 

 simply storm in Gallatin's list. 



Tu-ne-sa'-sah, place of pebbles, is one of Hoffman's names which 

 occurs elsewhere; Twe-nun-gas-ko, double voice, is another of Hoff- 

 man's referring to the echo in a glen. 



