ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 9I 



U-to-wan'-ne lake, big waves, is Oo-ta-wan'-ne in the Onondaga 

 dialect. This is near the head waters of Raquette river. 



West Canada creek retains an Indian name, but has several others. 



Yow-hayle, dead ground, is applied by Hoffman to the rapids of 

 some river unnamed by him. If correctly given by him as an exist- 

 ing name, it may have been corrupted, either from the Oneida yawu- 

 hayah, death, or the Mohawk yaweaheyea, dead. His poetic pro- 

 nunciation is followed here, but there should be more syllables. 

 Zeisberger wrote it jawoheje, and allowance must be made for his 

 use of letters. Yowhayyou is Gallatin's word for the dead, and 

 reference should be made to him in Hoffman's names. 



HERKIMER COUNTY 



The grant to Dellius, vacated in 1699, extended up the- Mohawk 

 river to Arach Soghne, in this county. It might be derived from 

 aresen, to be fat, in allusion to the fertile German Flats, but forcibly 

 suggests Oriskany, another place where everything grew to a large 

 size. 



As-to-ren'-ga, on the stone, from ostenra, rock, with locative, has 

 been applied to the hills at Little Falls. Another form, Astonrogon 

 or Astenrogen, place of rocks, has also been interpreted rock in the 

 zvater, as well as under the rock. In the last case it is applied to a 

 rock at the foot of the falls, but is usually a name for the whole 

 place. 



Ca-na-cha-ga'-la, one-sided kettle, was a clearing near Moose and 

 Woodhull- lakes, but the name is now applied to a lake at one of 

 the heads of Moose river. It was formerly a noted spring hole, 

 and the name may have come from this. 



Both East and West Canada creeks are important streams, thus 

 called from trails leading to Canada. 



Ca-no-we-da'-ge appears on the map of the New Hampshire 

 grants as the name of Nowadaga creek. In this case, as in many 

 others, the second syllable of the prefix Teka was retained and the 

 first dropped. In an Albany document it was called Onnawadage, 

 the western terminus of the fraudulent Dellius grant, obtained in 

 1697, and vacated two years later. 



Cat-ha-tach-ua or Cathecane is also known as Plum creek. It 

 has been defined she had a path. 



