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A-re-yu'-na or Reuna was applied to Tupper's lake by Hoffman, 

 and has been translated green rocks. This may be questioned. If 

 color is suggested by the word it is blue rather than green. 



Ca-na-ra-ge, erroneously given for the St Lawrence river in 

 Macauley's history, seems a typographical error, changing it from 

 Canawage. 



Che-gwa'-ga, in the hip, is a name for Black lake. 



Chip''-pe-wa bay and creek. This familiar name is variously 

 written, and in this form the first syllable has been dropped. While 

 this form is retained where it has long been applied to a place, the 

 name is now quite commonly written Ojibwa or Odjibwa, with 

 occasional minor changes. Charles Lanman defined it the ruling 

 people. . One derivation has been made from odji and bwa, voice 

 and gathering tip. Another has been suggested by the editor of 

 John Tanner's Narrative, published in 1830. He said : 



Of the origin of the name Chip-pe-wi-yan, by which, since 

 Hearne and INrKcn^ie these people have been called, it may now 

 be difficult to gi\'e any satisfactory account; a very intelligent per- 

 son among the Ojibbeways asserts that the name is derived from 

 that language, and is only a vicious pronunciation of the com- 

 pound word 0-jec-gwi-yan, which means the skin of the fisher 

 weasel. But the Chi-pe-wi-yans, in their own country, have no 

 knowledge of the animal, and it is not easy to imagine how the 

 name of its skin should have been fixed upon by them as a dis- 

 tinctive appellation. They are called by the Canadians, and many 

 white men residing in the Athawasea country, "mountaineers," 

 which appellation they derive from the country of bleak and snowy 

 rocks, which they inhabit. Tanner thinks the name O-jee-gwi-yah- 

 nug may be derived from a word which means ^' to pierce with an 

 awl a fold of skin." 



Ga-na-sa-da'-ga, side hill, is applied to Lake St Francis, and was 

 also an Indian village near Montreal. In sound it varies but little 

 from several words of different meaning. 



Ga-na-ta-ra-go'-in, Indian Point in Lisbon, seems the name used 

 at Waddington, defined as wet village, but may be a corruption of 

 Ganiataragowa, big lake. 



Ga-na-wa'-ga or rapid river, as given by Morgan, is a proper 

 form of the name of the St Lawrence, but is better defined at the 

 rapids. It is essentially the old name of Caughnawaga, or Kana- 



