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Con-hoc-ton river has its head in Stillwater. Morgan gives 

 Ga-nak'-to as the Tuscarora form, meaning log in the water. 



Con-nect-xio, a village on Pouchot's map east of the river, seems 

 the earlier Geneseo, but the name also strongly suggests Conesus, 

 some forms of which it resembles. 



Da-non-ca-ri-ta-oui on Kitchin's map, on the west side of Genesee 

 river, and as this was after Lahontan's date of the same name men- 

 tioned by him, it may have been another place. In 1672, however, 

 Father Garnier spoke of a Senepa chief who was called On-non-ken- 

 ri-ta-oui, saying: " he is the most distinguished chief of the Senecas." 

 He afterward called him Sho-non-ke-ri-ta-oui, and the town may 

 have been named from him or his successor, as was often done. 



De-o'-na-ga-no, cold zvater, is Morgan's name for Caledonia. 

 Doty has it Dyu'-ne-ga-nooh, clear cold water, placing it on the 

 northwest margin of the great spring at Caledonia. These springs 

 were well known to the Iroquois and near them the abundant cal- 

 careous tufa is much employed. The Rev. Samuel Kirkland men- 

 tioned them in 1788, speaking of " the magic spring as denominated 

 by the Indians because its water was said to petrify almost every- 

 thing that obstructed its current. A pagan tradition prevailed, of 

 an evil spirit having resided here in former times, bellowing with 

 a horrid noise, and ejecting balls of liquid fire. The spring emptied 

 into the Genesee, and its fountain was about 3 miles north of 

 Kanawageas." As ifi other similar cases no name indicating evil 

 mfluences has come down to us, though such names doubtless ex- 

 isted. 



De-o-nun'-da-ga-a, where the hill is near, was the name of Little 

 Beard's town according to Morgan. Doty has it Dyu-non-dah- 

 ga'-eeh, steep hill creek, in the east part of Cuylerville. 



De-o-wes'-ta is now Portageville or a neck of land below it. 



De-yu'-it-ga'-oh, where the valley begins to zviden, according to 

 Doty, is a name for Squakie Hill, opposite Mount Morris. He had 

 his name and meaning from Marshall. Morgan has Da-yo'-it-ga-o, 

 where the river comes out of the hills. Both definitions express the 

 same general idea without being literal, and this is often the case. 



Dyu-do'-o-sot', at the spring, is on the Douglass farm in Avon, 

 2 miles north of Livonia station and a few rods from the town line. 

 It is at the source of Little Conesus or Gore brook, and the name is 



