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in the Iroquois language, Skanadario, that is to say, very pretty 

 lake." Also, " The great river of St Lawrence, which I have often 

 mentioned, runs through the middle of the Iroquois country, and 

 makes a great lake there, which they call Ontario, viz : the beautifid 

 lake." It had other names noted elsewhere, and the Senecas some- 

 times called it Ohudeara. They were mostly living in this county 

 when Champlain called it after them in 1615, mentioning the lake of 

 the Entouhonorons, who were living west of the Iroquois. He after- 

 ward said: " The Antouhonorons are 15 villages built in strong po- 

 sitions . . . The Yroquois and the Antouhonorons make war 

 together against all the other nations, except the .Neutral nation." 

 This was the customary later distinction by the French of Lower 

 and Upper Iroquois, classed by the Dutch as Maquas and Senecas. 



Ah-ta'-gweh-da-ga is Morgan's name for Flint creek, usually 

 translated flint stone. Schoolcraft has atrakwenda for tlint in the 

 Cayuga dialect, and ahtehgwendah in the Seneca. 



An-ya-ye, Anyayea, Anaquayaen, and Anagaugoam are among 

 the variants of Honeo3'e in the journals of Sullivan's campaign. 



Ax-o-quen'-ta is also Flint creek. In the Cammerhoff journal of 

 1750 it is said: "We came to a creek that is called Axoquenta, or 

 Firestone creek." 



Ca-na-da-gua is a name given to Skaneatice lake in the Jenkins 

 journal of 1779. It suggests Canandaigua, but he had already men- 

 tioned that. 



Ca'-na-dice or Ska'-ne-a-dice is long lake, the former name being 

 that applied to the town and sometimes to the lake. The latter is 

 more commonly termed Skaneatice. It had other names and a 

 variation will be found in Grant's journal of Sullivan's campaign, 

 where he speaks of "Aionyedice, otherwise Long-narrow Lake." 

 In another journal of that year it is mentioned as a " small lake 

 called Konyouyhyough (Narrow gut)." On Lodge's map it is 

 " Conyeadice Lake ; English, the Long Narrow Lake." Marshall 

 said, of another time, that Sga'-nyiu-da-is, Long lake, was then 

 called Scanitice. The name is equivalent to Skaneateles elsewhere. 



Ca-na-go'-ra was a Seneca town of 1677 and had other names. 



Ca-nan-dai'-gua is given by Morgan as Ga'-nun-da-gwa, place 

 selected for a settlement. Spafford said of this: "Pure Indian. 

 Canandaigua being a town set off in the dialect of the Seneca In- 



