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Sken-so-wa'-ne, a place on Fourth lake. With the change of one 

 letter this would mean great peace. 



Squash pond has a New England Indian name, whose derivation 

 was often mentioned by early writers. Thus Roger Williams spoke 

 of the " Askuttasquash, their Vine aples, which the English from 

 them call Squa,shes, about the bignesse of Apples of severall colours, 

 a sweet, light, wholesome refreshing." Many Indian words are 

 thus now in common use, but they are rarely Iroquois. 



Squaw lake has the Algonquin name of ivoman. The New Eng- 

 land Indians also used nunksquaw for girl, and sunksquaw for 

 ,queen. The latter often occurs in early chronicles. 



Ta-la-que'-ga, small hushes, is a name applied to Little Falls by 

 Morgan. 



Te-car'-hu-har-lo'-da, visible over the creek, is his name for East 

 Canada creek, being a variant of the next. 



Te-ga'-hi-ha-rough'-we is the name for this stream on George 

 Klock's patent of 1754, and the names of the two creeks are often 

 much alike, as in the next. 



Te-ga'-hu-ha-rough-wa'-e is almost the same as the last, but 

 was applied to West Canada creek in 1786. 



Te-ugh'-ta-ra'-row suggests a variant of the last for the same 

 stream but has been differently defined as meaning its zvaters are 

 discolored; in this case from flowing through forests. Hence it 

 has been termed Amber creek. 



Ti-o'-ga creek was another name for this in 1768, and was much 

 used for several years before that date, with the usual meaning at 

 the forks. Te-a-ho'-ge and Te-uge'-ga are other forms. The Mo- 

 ravian missionaries sometimes wrote it Diaoga. Morgan applied the 

 name to the Mohawk river below Herkimer, as well as to the creek, 

 which the Senecas considered the main branch. It properly be- 

 longed to Herkimer, and there early usage placed it. 



Te-non-an-at'-che, river Uoiving through a mountain, is School- 

 craft's name for the Mohawk. He derived this from David Cusick's 

 history, who said the Iroquois came to a river " named Yenona- 

 natche, i. e. going round a mountain (now Mohawk)." School- 

 craft's spelling may be preferred, but he changed the sense as well. 

 Of some of Cusick's names he said : " I abbreviate these words 



