ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK ID/ 



Beautiful \^alley, and other slightly varying names. In early days 

 the stream was often termed the Little Seneca river. 



Ho-ne-oye creek, finger lyi)ig, is on the east line of the county, 

 having its name from the lake and town. 



"Kanuskago, the Door of the Five Nations," was at Dansville 

 and first mentioned in 1756. The Mohawks kept the eastern and 

 the Senecas the western door of the Long House. The name often 

 appears in colonial history and has been already noticed. Kenon- 

 skegon is Pouchot's form of this name about the same time, but this 

 would mean an empty house, and this would not be appropriate for 

 an important town. 



Kan-va-gen, a Seneca village on Pouchot's map, seems Cana- 

 waugus. 



Ka-yen-ge-de-ragh-te was mentioned in the Revolutionary Wai 

 as a village about 10 miles from an unnamed Seneca town. Its 

 location is uncertain and it may have been Karathyadirha. 



Ke-int-he was first mentioned by Greenhalgh in 1677, and was 

 near the line of Livingston and Ontario counties, having been as- 

 signed to both. It had other names, but its own survives in the Bay 

 of Quinte, in Canada. 



Ke-sha-qua or Coshaqua creek has its name from gah-she-gweh, 

 a spear. Ka-sa-wa-sa-hy-a, the first of the Genesee towns, was near 

 this in 1779. 



Ko-ho-se-ra-ghe, a Seneca village of 1687, may be Canaseraga, 

 but it appears elsewhere, as might be expected. As here written the 

 word would mean u'i)iter in Mohawk, but not in Seneca. 



Little Seneke river was a name often given to the Genesee to 

 distinguish it from the Seneca river farther east. 



Lima is said to be a corruption, by the Indians or Spaniards, of 

 the aboriginal South American word Rimac. 



Na-ga-noose, clear running zvater, the outlet of the great Cale- 

 donia spring, is derived from ogh-ne-ka-nos, zvater. 



No-ehn-ta was a name used by the Moravians in 1750 for Hem- 

 lock lake and outlet. In their hurried journey they may have mis- 

 taken this for the true name of O-neh-da, honhck spruce, from the 

 abundance of this tree there. Marshall appr3aches the Moravian 

 form, calling it Nah'-daeh, hemlock, from o-nah-dah, hemlock, and 

 ga-ah', it is upon. 



