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She-na-wa-ga or Shenanwaga appears in a journal of 1779, and 

 was the village burned at Kashong. 



Sin-non-do- wae-ne was the principal Seneca castle in 1720, re- 

 taining the old name in another place. It i-s a variant of Sonnon- 

 touan, great hill, and was probably often used in a general wav. 



Son-nont-ho-no-rons or Sonnontouans, great hill people was the 

 Iroquois name of the Senecas as commonly used. As a place name 

 it came from ononta, hill, and gowana or wan, great. In the Rela- 

 tion of 163s the country is termed Sonontoen, and in that of 1670 

 appear the " Tsonnontouans, or Nation of the Great Mountain." 



Thau-gwe-took was a prehistoric Seneca fort and council fire 

 west of Seneca lake, according to D. Cusick. 



Zin-no-do-wan-ha, mentioned in 1689, seems to be Sinnondo- 

 waene. 



While some early towns were in Monroe county, many later 

 Seneca villages were near Genesee river, and a few can be assigned 

 to their exact places only by careful study, such as has been given 

 to the subject by Messrs Clark, Conover, Harris and Marshall. 



ORANGE COUNTY 



All the Indian names in this county belong to Algonquin dialects. 



A-i-as-ka-wost-ing is the name of some high hills on the Evans 

 patent, west of Murderer's Kill. This patent was vacated in 1699. 



A-las-ka-ye-ring mountains are now the Minisink hills. The name 

 seems a variant of the last. 



An-nuck was a part of the Evans patent, and seems to mean a 

 Ulthy place. 



Ar-ack-hook was the Indian name for the Tin brook or Thin 

 brook of the Germans. Ruttenber derived this from the Delaware 

 word ahgook or snake. In 1701 Robert Sanders asked for a patent 

 " beginning at a fall (i. e. a stream of water) called Arackhook." 



As-sin-na-pink creek, according to Ruttenber, is a stream from 

 the solid rocks. It is opposite Anthony's Nose, and has also the 

 name of Ach-sin-nik, which would hardly bear the above inter- 

 pretation. 



A-wost-ing lake or Long pond suggests the first name above. It 

 may be derived from awossi, on the other side. 



Basher's kill is said to have had its name from a squaw called 



