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afternoon." Nahiwi, doivn the river, from the same writer, with 

 locative, suggests a fair derivation. 



Sha-wan-gunk has been derived from shongum, zvhite, making it 

 lifhite stone. More probably it is southern rocks or hills. It has 

 been more fully treated under the head of Orange county. 



Ten-na-nah or Tenannah. 



Toch-pol-lock creek, near Callicoon. 



To-ron-to pond. Morgan elsewhere gives Toronto as De-on'-do, 

 log -floating on the water. Here, of course, it is a recent name. 



Wil-lo-we-moc or Williwemack creek is in the town of Rockland, 

 and may be from wulagamike, bottom land. 



All these are Algonquin names but one. 



TIOGA COUNTY 



Ah-wa'-ga, where the valley zmdens, is Morgan's name for 

 Owego, but no early writer gives this form. 



Ap-a-la'-chin creek is Appalacon on a map of 1825. 



Ca-ne-wa'-na. N. P. Willis gave this as the name of a place 

 between his home at Glenmary and Owego. Gay's Historical 

 Gazetteer of Tioga County, l888, says that part of Owego, near 

 the mouth of Owego or Canawana creek, was called Canewanah. 

 This is said to have been from Newana Canoeush, little living 

 water, in the Seneca dialect, from Indian Spring, west of Owego 

 creek and north of Main street bridge. This word comes very near 

 Solomon Southwick's name for the Chemung, in the Sullivan cam- 

 paign, which is Conewawa, head on a pole. 



Cat'-a-tunk creek is a tributary of Owego creek, and its name 

 seems Algonquin, the Iroquois name being quite different. It may 

 mean the principal stream. 



Ca-rant'-ouan, big tree, seems to have been the village of the 

 Carantouanis in 161 5, at or near Waverly and between the Susque- 

 hanna and Chemung rivers. 



Ca-yu'-ta creek may be simply a form of geihahate, a river. 



Ga-na-to-che'-rat was a Cayuga village on the Chemung and near 

 Waverly, visited by Cammerhoff in 1750. Hence this was the 

 Cayuga branch, and the name may mean the last village of the 

 Cayugas, or more exactly village at the end. 



Ga-now-tach-ge-rage, there lies the creek or village, indicating 



