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and popular meaning has been given to the name, as though it were 

 broken EngHsh for Away, way yonder. 



Weigh-quat-en-heuk, place of imllozvs, as usually defined, was 

 near the foot of the Shawangunk mountains. 



Wil-le-hoo-sa is a cave in the side of the mountain, 3 miles above 

 Port Jervis and on the east bank of Neversink river. It may be 

 derived from woalheen, to dig a hole. 



Wi-neg-te-konk, now Woodcock mountain, is a hill in the town 

 of Cornwall. Wunnetue, good, with locative, may be the root of 

 this name. 



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A-jo'-yok-ta, fishing creek, is Morgan's name for Johnson's 

 creek, most of which is in this county. It suggests the next, but is 

 too far west. 



In speaking of Murray, Genesee county (1813), now in Orleans, 

 Spafford said : " The Anyocheeca creek runs across the n. w. 

 corner to Lake Ontario." This may be Bald Eagle, but is more 

 probably Sandy creek. 



Da-ge-a'-no-ga-unt, tzvo sticks coming together. This and the 

 next two are in Morgan's list. 



Date-geh'-ho-seh, one stream across another, is the aqueduct at 

 Medina. 



De-o'-wun-dake-no, place zvhere boats were htirned. Albion. 



Ken-au-ka-rent or Kea-nau-hau-sent, now Oak Orchard creek, 

 was the early western line of the Senecas according to D. Cusick, 

 and this is well sustained. 



Manitou beach, near Rochester, has the introduced name of the 

 Great Spirit or lesser deity. This is the only Algonquin name here. 



Ontario beach is on the lake and near the last. 



Ti-ya-na-ga-run'-te creek is on Johnson's map and east of John- 

 son's Harbor. This was probably Oak Orchard creek and the full 

 form of the next, here referring to an entrance of the country. A. 

 Cusick defined it zvhere she threw a stick at me. 



To-ron'-to. In 1764 Colonel Dayton mentioned camps at Great 

 Serdas, Runtacot and -Toronto, between Oswego and Niagara. The 

 latter seems Oak Orchard creek. Hough has Tho-ron-to-hen, tim- 

 ber on the zvater, for Toronto, and Morgan De-on-do, log floating 

 upon the zvater. Though so many have agreed on this meaning of 



