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Nun-da is Nun-da'-o, hilly, according to Morgan. Doty gives 

 it as O'-non-da'-oh, where many hills come together, which is much 

 the same. The village was 2 miles nearer the river than the present 

 village of Nunda. Earlier it was called Nundow and Nundey 

 Though this definition seems sound Spafford questioned it for some 

 good reasons. A Seneca hunter told him in 181 7 : "That this Nunda 

 was an attempt of the Yankees to preserve the Indian sound of the 

 name they had given to the rich alluvial mold of this country, sig- 

 nifying potato ground, a name they applied to lands of this descrip- 

 tion above the falls." There is much plausibility in this, as School- 

 craft gives ononnuhda as the Seneca word for potato, while Gal- 

 latin's is ononenundaw. This seems the place mentioned by Proctor 

 as Nondas in 1791, and which he thought 8 miles from Squakie Hill. 



O-ha'-di is a name given by Morgan to Geneseo or a village near 

 there, meaning trees burned. Doty wrote it Oh-ha-daih, burnt trees; 

 i. e., those which had been girdled. 



O-ha'-gi, crowding the bank, was a Tuscarora village on the 

 Genesee, mentioned by Morgan. It suggests the Oneida village re- 

 corded by Doty and the name seems the same. 



O-he-gech-rage was the name by which the Moravians called 

 Conesus lake in 1750. '*" 



O-neh'-da, the hemlock, is Morgan's name for Hemlock lake and 

 outlet. In Cayuga it is De-o-neh'-dah, with the same meaning. 

 Marshall called is Nah'-daeh. 



O-ne-o'-ta-de appears on Pouchot's map for the same lake. 



Ou-nen-a-ba is said by Doty to have been Belmont's name for 

 Gannounata in 1687. It is probably the latter name misspelled. 

 As given it suggests an Algonquin word, having one labial sound. 



Quicksea, a name for Conesus in 1779, seems the same as Yucksea. 



Sho-no'-jo-waah-geh, big kettle, is Doty's name for Mount Morris. 

 He said it was so called by the Indians from a copper still, or large 

 kettle, used there by the whites in making whisky. Marshall's note 

 is : "Sho-noh'-jo-waah-geh 'At General Morris's.' The General was 

 called by this name, without the suffix geh, which denotes locality." 

 Morgan said that So-no'-jo-wau-ga was the name of Big Kettle, a 

 Seneca chief who lived there. There were several chiefs who had 

 this favorite name. 



Sin-non-do-wae-ne was a Seneca castle in 1720, and had its name 



