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feet in dragging the canoe. Potsdam. This and the seven follow- 

 ing are from Hough. 



Ti-o-hi-on-ho-ken, place where the river divides or forks. Brash- 

 er's Falls. 



Tsi-ia-ko-on-tie-ta, where they leave the canoe. Raymondville. 



Tsi-ia-ko-ten-nit-ser-ron-ti-et-ha, where the canoe must be pushed 

 up stream w-ith poles. Gallop rapid. 



Tsi-hon-wi-ne-tha, where the canoe is towed with a rope. Isle 

 au Rapid Plat, opposite Waddington, 



Tsi-io-wen-o-kwa-ra-te, high island. Upper Long Sault island. 



Tsi-kan-i-a-ta-res-ka, hig or largest lake. Tupper lake. 



Tsi-kan-i-on-wa-res-ko-wa, given as long pond, but it hardly 

 differs from the last. It is applied to a smaller lake below the last, 

 apparently Raquette, just over the line in Franklin county. In both 

 cases the first part of the word implies a long lake, adding kowa to 

 show that it was also large. 



We-gat-chie, a postoffice in Rossie, has its name from Oswe- 

 gatchie. 



Wa-na-ke-na is a recently applied name, meaning good or pleas- 

 ant place. * 



Saratoga; COUNTY 



xA.-mis-so-ha-en-di-ek, a name of the Mahicans for the tract called 

 Saratoga, mentione4 in the deed of 1683,. 



In Holden's History of Queenshury, page 25, there is given the 

 name of "Aontagilban. A creek which empties into Fish creek, 

 Saratoga county. Taken from ' map no. 221, of the late Fish Creek 

 reservation in 1706.'- — Sec. of State's office." This has been ascribed 

 to Fish creek in Oneida county, where some comments will be 

 found. 



A-ta-te-a, a river, is Hoffman's name for the upper Hudson, be- 

 ing an abbreviation of the full word. 



Ca-ho-ha-ta-te-a was thus applied by Dr Mitchill, and has the 

 same meaning. Geihuhatatie is Zeisberger's word for river, which 

 is almost identical, though called an Onondaga word by him. The 

 Mohawk word differs. Sylvester erred in making it an Algonquin 

 name. 



Ca-nagh-si-o-ne was twice mentioned in 1690 as a place above 



