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Mohawk and other dialects vary from this, and it has erroneously 

 been translated pleasant valley. In one journal of 1779 it is written 

 Unedelly and Unendilla. 



Ga'-wa-no-wa'-na-neh, great island river, is Morgan's name for 

 the Susquehanna, and it is well applied. 



Kagh-ne-an-ta'-sis, tvhere the water whirls, is a whirlpool noted 

 in colonial days as a few miles below Wauteghe. 



Ka-ri-ton'-ga, place of oaks, is Cherry Valley. If the definition is 

 correct it seems an Onondaga word. 



Ka-un-seh-wa-tau'-yea was David Cusick's name for the Susque- 

 hanna. A. Ctisick gave it as Kah-na-seh-wa-de-u-yea, sandy; and 

 in Onondaga as Kah-na-se-u, nice sand. The name varied in places, 

 often meaning the river at such a spot. Thus one part was called 

 Scanandanani in 1775, referring to the great plain of Wyoming. 

 The west branch in Pennsylvania had a name which meant river of 

 long reaches. 



Nis-ka-yu'-na, corn people, perhaps better rendered as extensive 

 cornfields, is a name locally applied to the so called council rock in 

 Middlefield, two miles north of Clarksville. French said this was 

 thus called by the Indians, and there " various tribes were accus- 

 tomed to meet the Mohawks in council. In former days the rock 

 was covered with hieroglyphics, but from its shaly nature all are 

 now obliterated." The idea of a council rock there may be safely 

 dismissed. 



O-at'-tis creek was mentioned in 1779 as the outlet of Schuyler's 

 lake. 



Oc-qui-o-nis, he is a bear, if an Iroquois word as it seems, is a 

 name for Fly creek. It barely suggests the Delaware name for 

 gray fox. 



O-ne-on'-ta, stony place. In the Old New York Frontier Mr 

 Halsey quotes from the Smith and Wells journey of 1769: "We 

 passed the Adiquetinge on the left, and the Onoyarenton on the 

 right." He thought the last the original of Oneonta. 



O-te'-go was probably the same as Atege and Wauteghe. A 

 journal of 1779 mentions it as Otago. It is a large creek, giving 

 name to a town, and there was once an Indian village there. Bruyas 

 defines ategen, to have -fire there, and Schoolcraft's Mohawk word 

 for fire is yotekha. 



