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Ga-ha'-to, log in the ivater, is Morgan's name for the Conhoctdn 

 and Chemung rivers. 



Go-wan-is'-que creek enters the Chemung at Painted Post. Boyd 

 gives it as Cowanesque, briery or thorn bushy, apparently deriving 

 it from the Delaware word gawunsch a brier or thorn bush. It 

 would be as easy to take it from gauwin, to sleep or he is asleep, 

 referring it to a camping place. Major J. W. Powell said : " The 

 word Cowanesque seems to be no other than Ka-hwe-nes-ka, the 

 etymology and signification of which is as follows : Co, for Ka, 

 marking grammatical gender and meaning it; wan for hwe-n, the 

 stem of the word o-whe-na, an island; es, an adjective meaning 

 long; que for ke, the locative preposition, meaning at or on; the 

 whole signifying at or on the long island. If this is correct the 

 island has now disappeared by changes or drainage. Maxwell gives 

 the same meaning. 



Kan-hangh'-ton was a village of 36 log houses on the Cayuga 

 branch, destroyed in 1764. Though a Delaware town it had an 

 Iroquois name, suggesting that of Conhocton. 



Ka-no'-na is a recent name for Mud creek, the outlet of Mud 

 lake in Schuyler county. A. Cusick defined this on my skin, from 

 the Onondaga word konihwa, skin. It might also be derived from 

 the Mohawk word gannona, bottom of the zvater. It is now applied 

 to a village, and closely resembles the Iroquois name of New York, 

 to which the latter meaning is given. 



Ka-nes-ti'-o for Canisteo on the maps of Pouchot and others. It 

 was the largest Delaware town on the Cayuga branch in 1764, and 

 had then a bad reputation. 



Kay-gen river, a branch of the Kanestio on Pouchot's map, on 

 which there is also a village with this name. 



Ke-u'-ka, a landing on Lake Keuka, formerly Crooked lake. The 

 name closely resembles Cayuga, and probably refers to a portage 

 at the northern extremities of the lake. 



Knac-to is another village on Pouchot's map. 



Michigan creek. A western Indian name variously interpreted, 

 but usually understood to mean great zvater or lake. Trumbull 

 dissents from this and makes it a kind of fish trap. 



Pa-cih-sah-cunk or Pa-seck-ach-kunk was called a Mingo town 

 in 1758, but had a Delaware name. It was then far up the Cayuga 



