ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES OF NEW YORK 23 1 



TOMPKINS COUNTY 



Cayuga lake and inlet. The name has been already treated. 



Co-re-or-go'-nel was an Indian village 2 miles south of the site 

 of Ithaca in 1779. Major Norris said it is " Call'd Corcargonell 

 and is the Capital of a Small Nation or Tribe." 



Major Grant's journal of i779.says that Colonel Dearborn burned 

 " a town situate on the great Swamp called De Ho Riss Kanadia," 

 being the same place. This seeijis to refer to the lake, and perhaps 

 to its old name of Thiohero, a place of rushes. 



Ga-ni-a-ta-re-ge'-chi-at was defined by A. Cusick as from here we 

 see the lake. It was the first view of Cayuga lake from the south, 

 and the name is in Cammerhoff's journal of 1750. In Zeisberger's 

 journal of a conference at Cayuga in 1766 it occurs again. The 

 Cayuga chief spoke of a proposed settlement " at Ganiataragechiat, 

 that is, the upper end of the lake," and this seems the received 

 meaning then. In both cases there is a local reference to reaching 

 or leaving the lake at that end, and it may properly be defined end 

 of the lake. Morgan gives a similar meaning to another word. 



Ga-non-tach'-a-rage or Ganowtachgerage, was West creek, be- 

 tween Cortland and Owego. It has been defined as there lies the 

 village or creek, that is, in that direction. 



Gi-en-tach'-ne was Salmon creek, on the east side of Cayuga lake. 



Ka-yegh-ta'-la-ge-a'-lat, valley between mountains, between Ithaca 

 and Coreorgonel. It is in the Oneida dialect and on a map in the 

 Secretary of State's office. 



Ka-yegh-ta'-la-ge-a'-lat, valley hetzvecn mountains, between Ithaca 

 more exactly end of the lake. The word lake is contracted. 



Noch-wa-i-o creek, near Ithaca in 1750, is properly Cayuga inlet, 

 being defined place of rushes or Hags. 



No-ga-e'-ne creek was Fall creek near Ithaca and was mentioned 

 in Cammerhoff's journal. » 



No-tan-tak'-to creek was in the same valley, being Sixmile creek. 

 The meaning is to go around the bend. 



On-och-sa-e, cave in the rock, was the name of a place on the 

 west shore of the lake at Ithaca, in 1750. The same name occurred 

 at a place on the Srsquehanna in Pennsylvania. 



O-was'-co inlet, bridge on the water, but with no local signifi- 

 cance. 



