ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK I49 



dried azvay" ; perhaps from an idea that the lake was once much 

 larger. The derivation is reasonable. Zeisberger has the Onon- 

 daga work ostick, the icater is low; in the perfect tense, ostiqua, 

 the zvater has been lozv. It might also come from Us-te-ka, the 

 name of its outlet, but there is less resemblance in this, and orig- 

 inally the lake had the appearance of subsidence. 



O-ya-ye'-han, apples split open, is Morgan's name for Camillus. 



Qua-quen-de'-na, red place, according to A. Cusick, is on Sau- 

 thier's map, and apparently at Caughdenoy. 



Qui-e'-hook, was defined as zn'e spoke there, by A. Cusick, and 

 there was a consultation there about a fort. It was a creek flowing 

 into, not out of Oneida lake in 1700. Its correct location appears 

 on Romer's map of that year, where it is applied to Chittenango 

 creek below Butternut. It was also called Quohock, and was men- 

 tioned as "Quiehook by the Ledge called Kagnewagrage about iH 

 Dutch mile from the Lake of Oneyda." Clark erred in saying "An 

 Indian village, at Oswego falls, was called by IMercier, ' Quiehook,' 

 and the ledge over which the water falls, he calls 'Kagnewagrage.' " 

 Both names belong to Chittenango creek and a much later day. 



Ra-rag-hen'-he, place zvhere lie considered, as defined by A. 

 Cusick, was a place on Oneida river in 1788. 



Sa-gogh-sa-an-a-gech-they-ky, bearing the names, is the council 

 name of the Onondagas and was applied to their town in a council 

 held there in 1743. This name was often taken by the principal 

 chief or speaker, as representing the nation, and then was some- 

 times shortened in common usage, as when we say Tom for Thomas. 

 Another instance of naming this town after this principal chief or 

 council name occurs in the Moravian journal at Onondaga, Sep- 

 tember 29, 1752: "Next we called on the chief Gachsanagechti, who 

 is the principal chief of the town, and after whom it has been named 

 Tagachsanagechti." 



Sah'-eh.a name given by Clark to Oneida river, seems a con- 

 traction of the first part of the name he assigned to Brewerton. 

 Otherwise it might be derived from o-sa'-a, muddy, in allusion to the 

 lowlands through which the river flows. 



Seneca river has its name from an Algonquin word to be con- 

 sidered later. In early days it was known as Onondaga river from 

 Its mouth to the outlet of that lake. Above this it was the Cayuga, 



