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Jti-ta-la'-ga is Morgan's name for the Amsterdam or Chucte- 

 nunda creek, but he thought the meaning was lost. 



Ka-hek-a-nun-da, kill of berries, is in the town of Mohawk. This 

 definition is probably erroneous, and a better one may be found in 

 karhakoha, hazvk, and nunda, hill. Barber and Howe quoted an 

 account of Tribes Hill : " The Mohawk name of this elevation is 

 Kaheka-nunda,' or ' hill of berries ' ; probably because many berries 

 were found there. The ancient Mohawks required their male 

 papooses to run up and down this hill, and those who flagged under 

 the exercise, were deemed unqualified to endure the fatigues of 

 war." 



Ka-na-da-rauk creek, bread. Bruyas gives gannatarok this mean- 

 ing in Mohawk. In speaking of the town of Palatine, Spafford 

 said: "In the S. E. corner of this town, just above the Nose, the 

 natives had, from a very remote period of- their history, a curious 

 kind of Indian corn mill, from which circumstance the little stream, 

 now called Bread creek, has its name. . . They called the place 

 Can-agh-da-rox, bread creek, and when the Europeans came to their 

 country, at an early period, the Mohawks had a gristmill erected 

 upon it." This is a good story with doubtful features. 



Ka-naugh-ta Au-ske-ra-da is a name for Canada lake. If the last 

 word is a corruption of akaraji this would be elm lake. 



Ka-ya-de-ros-se-ras creek was 3 miles west of Amsterdam, and 

 Fort Johnson was on the west side. 



Ken-ha-na-ga-ra, there lies the river, according to A. Cusick, the 

 traveler having arrived either at the Mohawk or Schoharie creek. 

 It is said to have been an early name for the latter, and suggests 

 the next. 



Ken-nen-da-ha-re was a name for the Nose, on the south side of 

 the Mohawk. Tooker wrote this Kanendakherie, a high mountain, 

 and assigned it to Anthony's Nose on the Hudson, an obvious error. 



Ma-qua, a bear, wa« the Algonquin name for the Mohawk nation 

 used by the Dutch, and hence the river was often called the Maquas 

 kill. Mohawk was from moho, to cat living things. In 1676 they 

 were mentioned as " Maugwa-wogs, or Mohawks, i, e. man-eaters." 

 A later writer supposed the word meant muskrat river, but he also 

 derived it from moho, to eat, defining it cannibal river. Most In- 

 dians sometimes literally devoured their enemies. 



