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like Canastota than the word Knistee. Bruyas defined Gannastout, 

 to set the poles of a cabin. 



Ca-nagh-ta-ragh-ta-ragh was given by Mrs Hammond as a name 

 for the vicinity of the Oneida Stone in Stockbridge, which she was 

 incHned to identify with Cusick's Kaw-na-taw-te-ruh, or pineries. 

 That place was too far south, though the resemblance is naturally 

 suggestive. The name is almost identical with that of Dean's creek 

 in Oneida county. The stone mentioned is now in a cemetery in 

 Utica. 



Che-nan-go river. The head waters of this are in this county. 



Chit-te-nan-go creek is rendered Chu-de-naang' by Morgan, 

 where the sun shines out. Sylvester defines it river flowing north, 

 as all the neighboring streams do. There is no good derivation for 

 this. Another derivation is still weaker, where the waters divide 

 and run north. They unite and flow in that direction. A. Cusick 

 thought the meaning of one form might be marshy place, the stream 

 passing many miles through lowlands before reaching Oneida lake. 

 On a map of 1825 it is called Chitening, much like Morgan's form. 

 Spafford gave it Chitteningo, and in land treaties it is Chittilingo. 

 In early days it was called both Tuscarora and Canaseraga creek. 

 Major John Ross thus mentioned it in his expedition in October, 

 1781 : "On the nth I left Oswego and proceeded to Oneida lake as 

 far as Canasarago creek, where I left some provisions and a guard." 

 The Indians now knov^j it as O-wah-ge-nah, or perch creek. 



Da-ude'-no-sa-gwa-noSe, roundhouse, is Morgan's name for 

 Hamilton. 



De-ose-la-ta'-gaat, where the cars go fast, is his name for Oneida. 

 The word has a fresh significance since a Pullman porter said his 

 train did. not even hesitate there. 



En-ne-yut'-te-ha'-ge was Van Curler's name for Oneida Castle in 

 1634, when it was east of Mannsville, the first three syllables stand- 

 ing for Oneida. Other names were included in a song which he 

 then heard. 



Ga-na-tis-go-a, big village, a Tuscarora town first mentioned by 

 the Moravians in 1752. It was. the most easterly of their towns, 

 and the name was afterward contracted to Sganatees. In this form 

 it is strongly suggestive of a long take, but the identity of the names 

 is certain in spite of the changed form, the adjective being dropped 



