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Toronto, Gen. J. S. Clark says it is not from Karonto, a log in the 

 water, but refers to a hay, making a country accessible, as by a door. 

 He derives it from the last two syllables of kaniatare, lake, and onto, 

 to open, illustrating this by many examples. 



To-na-wan'-da swarhp has the name of swift water, but the 

 meaning here is that the swamp is near Tonawanda creek. 



All Indian names here are Iroquois except as noted, their original 

 territory probably including Oak Orchard creek, but they occupied 

 no land west of Genesee river during the Huron' war. 



OS -VEGO COUNTY 



Most of this. country was in the territory of the Onondagas, but 

 after the colonial period the Oneidas increased their claims. The 

 eastern part originally belonged to them but not the Ontario lake 

 shore, the Onondagas having a village at the mouth of Salmon river 

 in 1654. Nearly all the names are thus Iroquois. 



A-han-ha'-ge or Asanhage was a name for Salmon river in 1687. 

 This name varied greatly through the prefix used, but in some cases 

 another name was given to this place. 



A-ha-oue'-te' was a name for Oswego Falls in the Relation for 

 1656. It was mentioned in the account of the journey of 1655 ^^^^ 

 occurs nowhere else. 



Am-boy has its name from a place in New Jersey, and is derived 

 from emboli, a place ivseinbling a bozvi It was originally applied 

 to a well sheltered bay. 



Cad-ran-gan-hi-e was mentioned in 1687 and has been supposed 

 by some to be Sandy creek of this county, but is probably the stream 

 of that name a little farther north. 



Ca-no-ha'-ge, a creek or river, is one form of the name already 

 given for Salmon river. It was called Cajonhago in 1687, Cayon- 

 hage in 1688, and Cay-hung-ha'-ge in 1726, and is equivalent to 

 Cuyahoga in Ohio. By the French it was long termed La Famine 

 from the hunger of the colonists in 1656, as they passed the place. 

 They had hoped for relief there. It was often called La Grande 

 Famine to distinguish it from a smaller stream of the same name. 



Cas-son-ta-che'-go-na was river of great hark in 1757, and was 

 placed a little east of Oswego. A, Cusick defined this as large 

 pieces of hark lying down, ready for building. Morgan called it 



