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Adjutsa lake is on Lodge's map, made at this time, and the name 

 is defined : " English the lake between the hills." His definitions 

 seem quite correct. Ajudishta is spear in the Onondaga dialect. 



Ca-i-a-di-on, a Seneca village of 1767, may be Caneadea, which 

 would be south of this county. 



Ca-na-se-ra'-ga, is rendered Ga-nus'-ga-go or Ga-nos'-ga-go, 

 among the milkweeds, by Morgan. He applied this to the creek 

 and also to Dansville, where there was a Seneca village called 

 Kanuskago, in colonial days. It will be observed that Morgan gave 

 the word and meaning quite differently in Madison county, nor are 

 the words primarily the same. In the life of Mary Jemison, the 

 editor has notes on Caniskrauga creek, near Mount Morris, inter- 

 preting it slippery ehn\s, and saying there was a village of this name 

 at Dansville. French followed this definition, judging from the 

 Onondaga dialect this seems the more correct. 



Ca-na-wau'-gus, fetid zvaters, a name for Avon Springs, was 

 written Ga-no-wau'-ges by Morgan, and was applied to the sur- 

 rounding country. Canawagoris and Canawagoras were other 

 forms in 1779. The name is retained in the town of Caledonia. 



Ca-sa-wa-val-at-e-tah or Gagh-cheg-wa-la-hale was on the east 

 side of the Canaseraga creek, near its mouth, and the name has 

 many forms in the journals of Sullivan's campaign. Fogg and 

 Lodge are perhaps as reliable as any, but they had most names in 

 the dialect of the "Oneida guides. Major Fogg spoke of this as 

 "Gohseolahulee (which signifies spear laid up)." On Lodge's map 

 it is "Cossawauloughley, English, the Spear lay'd up." Among the 

 forms in these journals are Gaghaheywarahera, Gaghehewarahare 

 2 miles from Genesee river, Gathtsegwarohare, Gessauraloughin, 

 Gaghsuqnilahery, Costeroholly and Kasawassahya. So differently 

 do men hear and write. 



Doty gives the name as Gaw-she-gweh-oh, at the confluence of 

 the Genesee river and Canaseraga creek. Gaw-she-gweh is a spear, 

 and O-she-gweh-ont is a ralttlesnake. There were many of these 

 reptiles there, but the allusion may be to the point between the 

 streams. This was the site of the earlier Geneseo. 



Che-nus-sio was a frequent form of Geneseo in colonial days, and 

 it thus appeared in 1759. In 1757 it was Cenosio, but the Moravians 

 wrote it Zonesschio in 1750, saying: "The river Zonesschio, from 



