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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  high 
  cliffs 
  or 
  steep 
  hills, 
  especially 
  if 
  the 
  hills 
  form 
  a 
  bend. 
  The 
  

   name 
  Gowanda 
  was 
  suggested 
  by 
  the 
  Rev. 
  Asher 
  Wright 
  in 
  

   response 
  to 
  the 
  request 
  of 
  the 
  people 
  of 
  Lodi 
  who 
  wished 
  a 
  more 
  

   appropriate 
  and 
  less 
  common 
  name 
  for 
  their 
  village." 
  

  

  Gus-tan-goh, 
  the 
  Seneca 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  village 
  of 
  Versailles. 
  Mr 
  

   Parker 
  interprets 
  this 
  under 
  the 
  cliffs. 
  

  

  He'-soh 
  or 
  Ischua, 
  -floating 
  nettles. 
  The 
  latter 
  is 
  the 
  present 
  

   name 
  of 
  a 
  creek 
  and 
  town. 
  It 
  was 
  Asueshan 
  in 
  1767- 
  

  

  Je'-ga-sa-nek. 
  Burton 
  creek 
  was 
  thus 
  called 
  after 
  an 
  Indian. 
  

  

  Jo'-ne-a-dih, 
  beyond 
  the 
  great 
  bend. 
  A 
  Seneca 
  village. 
  

  

  Kill 
  Buck 
  is 
  not 
  an 
  Indian 
  name 
  of 
  itself, 
  but 
  was 
  that 
  of 
  a 
  

   prominent 
  Delaware 
  chief 
  of 
  colonial 
  and 
  Revolutionary 
  days, 
  

   sometimes 
  called 
  Bemineo. 
  It 
  has 
  long 
  been 
  a 
  local 
  name 
  in 
  this 
  

   county. 
  

  

  O-da'-squa-dos-sa, 
  around 
  the 
  stone. 
  Great 
  Valley 
  creek. 
  

  

  O-da'-squa-wa-teh', 
  small 
  stone 
  beside 
  a 
  large 
  one. 
  Little 
  Val- 
  

   ley 
  creek. 
  It 
  is 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  Squeaugheta. 
  

  

  O-do-sa'-gi, 
  clear 
  spring 
  water. 
  A 
  new 
  name 
  in 
  Machias. 
  

  

  O-nogh-sa-da'-go, 
  a 
  Seneca 
  town 
  near 
  Canawago 
  in 
  1744. 
  . 
  A. 
  

   Cusick 
  defined 
  this 
  as 
  where 
  buried 
  things 
  are 
  dug 
  up. 
  This 
  might 
  

   seem 
  an 
  allusion 
  to 
  the 
  lead 
  plates 
  buried 
  by 
  the 
  French 
  and 
  dug 
  

   up 
  by 
  the 
  Indians, 
  were 
  not 
  the 
  name 
  so 
  early, 
  but 
  caches 
  may 
  

   often 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  there. 
  It 
  seems 
  identical 
  with 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  

   Cornplanter's 
  town 
  as 
  given 
  above. 
  There 
  are 
  several 
  names 
  nearly 
  

   the 
  same 
  in 
  sound 
  but 
  differing 
  in 
  meaning. 
  

  

  O-hi'-o 
  or 
  O-hee'-yo, 
  beautiful 
  river. 
  Allegany 
  river. 
  In 
  Mary 
  

   Jemison's 
  life 
  it 
  is 
  said, 
  " 
  the 
  word 
  O-hi-o 
  signifies 
  bloody." 
  This 
  

   erroneous 
  definition 
  was 
  the 
  effect 
  of 
  associating 
  the 
  name 
  with 
  

   the 
  bloody 
  scenes 
  enacted 
  there. 
  

  

  O-so'-a-went-ha, 
  by 
  the 
  pines, 
  for 
  Hasket 
  creek, 
  is 
  almost 
  the 
  

   same 
  as 
  the 
  next. 
  

  

  Os-wa'-ya 
  creek, 
  pine 
  forest. 
  It 
  flows 
  from 
  Pennsylvania, 
  and 
  

   Morgan 
  gave 
  the 
  original 
  as 
  O-so'-a-yeh. 
  

  

  San'-dus-ky 
  postoffice 
  has 
  a 
  name 
  introduced 
  from 
  Ohio. 
  In 
  

   Potier's 
  Racinnes 
  Huronnes 
  it 
  is 
  Ot-san-doos-ke', 
  there 
  where 
  

   there 
  is 
  pure 
  water- 
  A 
  Polish 
  trader 
  lived 
  on 
  the 
  bay 
  who 
  was 
  

   called 
  Sandusky, 
  but 
  he 
  probably 
  had 
  his 
  name 
  from 
  the 
  bay, 
  not 
  

   the 
  bay 
  from 
  him. 
  

  

  