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Gar-dow or Gardes u should be Ga-da'-o, bank in front, according 

 to Morgan. Marshall and Doty wrote it Ga-dah'-oh, meaning a 

 bluff. The tract was in Livingston and Wyoming cotmties, and was 

 reserved for Mary Jemison, the White Woman. In the account 

 of her hfe it is said that her Indian husband did not like his nick- 

 name of Gardeau, and that the land was not called from him but 

 from containing a hill known as Kautam. This is misspelled, like 

 many other names in the book, and should be Kautaw. This ex- 

 planation was given.: " Kutani . . . signifies tip and dozvii, or 

 dozvn and tip, and is applied to a hill that you ascend and descend 

 in passing ; or to a valley." This is not satisfactory. 



Gaw-she-gweh-oh, spear laid up, has already been noticed under 

 Casawavalatetah. Another imperfect form is Gagh-a~hey-wa-ra- 

 he-ra. 



Gen-e-see or Gen-e-se-o, beautiful valley, is a popular Indian 

 name, at first written in many ways and now applied to many places. 

 I\Iost New York cities and villages, west of Albany, have a Genesee 

 street, so great became its fame through Sullivan's campaign, and 

 so rapid was its settlement soon after. All roads led there for a 

 long tim.e. Spafford said : "Genesee, in the language of the In- 

 digenes of this region is formed from their name for Pleasant 

 Valley, brt I know not what was the aboriginal name." It was 

 probably the same, but it attracted no attention till their later villages 

 were built. • 



Morgan said : 'Tt is worthy of remark that the root of the word 

 Genesee was the name of the valley and not of the river, the latter 

 deriving its name from the former. Gen-nis -he-yo, signifies 'the 

 beautiful valley,' a name most fitly bestowed." Mr George H. 

 Harris said: "Genesee is the modern form of Gen-nus-hee-o, beau- 

 tiful valley. The term originally referred to the neighborhood of 

 the Seneca towns near Fall brook, but was recognized as applicable 

 to all the ' pleasant open valley,' between Mount Morris and the 

 rapids of Sovth Rochester." Doty made it Jo-nis-hi-yuh or Geneseo, 

 the full name being De-gah-chi-nos-hi-yooh, beautiful valley, but 

 he did not say that Degah, at the, is but a locative prefix. Pouchot 

 called it Sonnechio, and the Moravians Zonesshio. David Cusick 

 placed the Kahkwah battle there. In the journals of Sullivan's 

 campaign it is called Jenessee, Canisee, Chenisee, Chenussio or 



