ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 95 



from the originals, for the sole purpose of making them readable 

 to the ordinary reader." 



Wa-co-ni-na was interpreted for me as there used to be a bridge. 

 It is the name of the Little lakes on the map of the New Hamp- 

 shire grants. 



Wa-i-ont-ha lakes on Sauthier's map 'are now Little lakes*in the 

 town of Warren. This seems the original form of the name. 



Witchopple is a name now given to a small lake. 



Yon-dut-de-nogh-scha-re creek, in 1714, suggests Cusick's name 

 of Yenonanatche for the Mohawk river. 



Many Indian names have been recently applied to camps and 

 summer houses in the wilderness, as Cohasset, Manhasset, Mohawk 

 and Onondaga camps, and Iroquois and Hiawatha lodges. 



JEFFERSON COUNTY 



Indian names in this county are mostly of Iroquois origin, but 

 are few in number. When its bays, rivers and fort sites were well 

 peopled it must have had many, but this was in prehistoric days. 

 For more than three centuries at least it has not been inhabited by 

 its former owners, yet some names still refer to early times. It is 

 every way probable that this was long the home of the OnondagaS, 

 but most of the territory at last fell to the Oneidas. 



At-en-ha-ra-kweh-ta-re, where the tvall fell doivn, has been given 

 as a name for French creek at Clayton. Hough said that on Penet's 

 patent French creek is called Weteringhare Guentere, meaning a 

 fallen fort and referring to an Oneida tradition of a fort they 

 captured there. Fort sites are frequent in the county but none have 

 been reported at Clayton. 



Hough said a French map, in Yale College library, called Carle- 

 ton island Cahihououage, but this is probably an error of place, as 

 the word means large creek or river, and belongs to Salmon river, 

 once known as La Famine. 



Cat-ar-ga-ren-re, Catagaren and Cadranghie are variants of the 

 name of Sandy creek recorded in 1687. It was written Et-cat-ar- 

 a-gar-en-re in 1755, and is Catagaren on Sauthier's map. A. Cusick 

 defined this as mud raised like a chimney, but slanting to one side. 

 This might refer to the many prehistoric earthworks along its 

 course. Te-ka'-da-o-ga'-he is another name, meaning sloping banks 

 and perhaps but a variant of those above. 



