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here. That people not only owned but occupied both sides of the 

 lake. 



" Connadaga or Sineca Lake " appears in one journal of 1779, 

 for Connadasaga. 



Ga-na-zi-o-ha, now Kendig's creek, was mentioned by Cammer- 

 hoff in 1750, probably meaning where there is sand. He found few 

 streams in crossing this county, but they are very frequent in going 

 from north to south. 



Ken-dai'-a, on the east shore of Seneca lake, was variously given 

 in the journals of 1779. It is in the town of Romulus, and by some 

 was called Appletown. Kendoa, Kondar, Candaia, Kanadia, Con- 

 day are forms of this name. The account of the place is interesting. 

 Ken-daw-ya is Gallatin's word for prairie, implying a clearing. 



Nu-qui-age was a Cayuga village near Seneca lake and its outlet 

 in 1750. From this Seneca lake had one of its many names. 



Oe-yen-de-hit is on the west side of Cayuga lake on Pouchot's 

 map. A. Cusick defined this there are favorable signs. When trav- 

 elers reached the west shore, going east, they often had to signal 

 for a canoe to carry them over. Thus when Cammerhoff arrived 

 there in 1750, he said: "There was no canoe on this side. We at 

 once built a very large fire, hoping that the smoke might be seen 

 on the opposite shore, and fired several loud shots." 



On-da-cho'-e was a Cayuga town on the west shore of Cayuga 

 lake in 1750, southwest of Union Springs. When about the middle 

 of the lake and south of the latter place, Cammerhoff said he saw 

 " in the west a town called Ondachoe, said to be larger than Ga- 

 juka," about 15 miles from us." From the distance, which it is 

 always safe to reduce. General Clark placed this at Sheldrake Point, 

 which would be due south and not west. West of them lay the 

 present town of Varick or the south part of Fayette. 



Sen-e-ca or Sin-ne-ke, an early Algonquin name for the upper 

 Iroquois, appears on the Dutch maps of 1614 and 1616 as Sen- 

 necas, and all but the ^'ohawks were long termed Senecas by the 

 Dutch. Some have identified this with the Sickenanes, which is 

 clearly erroneous, this being the name of a New England tribe. 

 Gen. J. S. Clark and Hon. George S. Conover derived it from the 

 Algonquin sinne, to eat; as in we-sin-ne, we eat. The reference 

 might be figurative, as when the Iroquois called Washington the 



