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Florida, and added: "About 2 miles up the Schoharie from the 

 Mohawk, the., eastern shore terminates with a bold bluff to the 

 stream, which originated the Indian Ca-daugh-ri-ta, meaning steep 

 bank or perpendicular wall. The aboriginal name still attaches to 

 this locality." 



Ca-ha-ni-a-ga was mentioned, as the first town on the river in 

 1677. Though this suggests the national name it was intended for 

 Caugh-na-wa-ga, on the rapids. 



East Canada creek has other Indian names. 



Ca-na-ge-re may be the later Canagora in another place, being 

 the second castle and south of the river in 1634. It may be derived 

 from Gannagare, a great pole. It was west of some great flats and 

 was also called Wetdashet by Van Curler. 



Ca-na-go-ra was on the north side of the river in 1677, and was 

 the Banagiro of 1644 (an error for Kanagiro), the castle of the 

 Bears. The French gave this the name of Gandagaro in 1669. At 

 first sight it suggests a large village as a meaning, but this can not 

 be sustained. Bruyas, however, says of one of his Mohawk words, 

 " Ganniagwari, a she hear. This is the name of the Mohawk," and 

 a word derived from this may well have been applied to a town 

 peopled by the Bear clan. It seems the same town as the last in a 

 new situation. 



Ca-na-jo-ha-rie is rendered Ga-na-jo-hi'-e by Morgan, and defined 

 zvashinz the basin. This should be kettle, which the first three 53^- 

 lables signify. Mr Morgan made a note on his interpretation : 

 " In the bed of the Canajoharie creek there is said to be a basin, 

 several feet in diameter, with a symmetrical concavity, washed out 

 in the rock. Hence the name Ca-na-jo'-ha-e. One would naturally 

 have expected to have found the Indian village upon this creek, 

 instead of the Ot-squa-go." There was an Indian village just west 

 cf the creek, but. he mistook the location of the Canajoharie of 

 King Hendrick's day, which was at Indian Castle in Danube, and 

 not at Fort Plain. There may have been several towns of the 

 name. 



Spafford said: "This name is of Indigene origin. Canajoharie, 

 as spoken by the Mohawk Indians, signifies the pot or kettle that 

 washes itself. The name was first applied to a whirlpool at the foot 

 of one of the falls of the. creek that now bears the name." French 

 said that the name of the town was " Canajoxharie in the act of 



