ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK l9t 



wage as David Cusick wrote it. There he placed the Eagwehoewe, 

 (Ongwehonwe), the first created people. 



Ga-ron-ouy, a name of the Long Sault in 1673, seems to mean 

 a confused voice, or where one speaks with a loud voice, referring 

 to the roar of the rapids. It was called " Garonkoui, or the Long 

 Sault," in 1698. 



Point aiix Iroquois is in Waddington. Charlevoix said : " The 

 name of Iroquois is purely French, and has been formed from the 

 term hiro, ' I have spoken,' a word by which these Indians close all 

 their speeches, and Koue, which, "when long drawn out, is a cry of 

 sorrow, and when briskly uttered is an exclamation of joy." This 

 m,akes it an Indian word compounded by the French, but the ex- 

 planation is not satisfactory. The French found it already in use 

 in Canada, long before they met the Iroquois, and when they could 

 have known nothing of their customs. From this fact it must be 

 considered an Algonquin word. Horatio Hale properly cited this 

 early use and the appearance of Irocoisen on the map of 1616, but 

 did not observe its necessarily Algonquin origin. Thus his deriva- 

 tions were from Iroquois words, as ieroka, to smoke, or okwai, 

 bear. No suggested meaning has yet proved satisfactory, but the 

 termination plainly refers to a tribe or people, in a large sense. 



Ka-na-swa-stak-e-ras, ivhere the mud smells bad. Messena 

 Springs. This may be compared with the original form of Cattar- 

 augus. The Iroquois seem to have been unpleasantly affected by 

 most mineral springs. 



Ka-na-ta-ra-ken, wet village, below the Ogden rapids, or at Wad- 

 dington. This is one of Hough's names, as is the last. He sup- 

 plied a number in his histories, and the next is his also. See 

 Ganataragoin for comparison. 



Ka-na-ta-se-ke, new village, is Norfolk. 



Ka-ron-kwi, lower Long Sault island, has its name from the 

 Sault and a variant appears above. 



Kat-sen-e-kwar, lake covered with yellozv lilies. Yellow lake. 



Ka-wen-ko-wa-nen-ne, big island. Cornwall island. The sylla- 

 ble nen is superfluous. 



Ko-ko-mo, a name introduced from Indiana. Boyd says it means 

 young grandmother. 



Mas-sa-we-pie lake, large water. 



