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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  Ml 
  'SKIM 
  

  

  des, 
  flowing 
  into 
  Niagara 
  river 
  east 
  of 
  Grand 
  Island. 
  The 
  present 
  

   name 
  is 
  a 
  corrupt 
  form. 
  

  

  Mas-ki-non-gez, 
  from 
  the 
  fish 
  of 
  that 
  name, 
  written 
  and 
  pro- 
  

   nounced 
  in 
  many 
  different 
  ways. 
  This 
  was 
  an 
  early 
  Chippewa 
  name 
  

   for 
  Tonawanda 
  creek, 
  some 
  of 
  these 
  Indians 
  having 
  lived 
  on 
  the 
  

   New 
  York 
  line 
  nearly 
  two 
  centuries 
  ago. 
  It 
  is 
  usually 
  treated 
  as 
  

   an 
  Indian 
  name, 
  and 
  occurs 
  in 
  vocabularies 
  as 
  such, 
  but 
  H. 
  W. 
  

   Herbert 
  (Frank 
  Forester) 
  speaks 
  of 
  " 
  the 
  mascalonge, 
  which 
  owes 
  

   its 
  name 
  to 
  the 
  formation 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  — 
  masque 
  allonge, 
  long 
  face 
  

   or 
  snout, 
  Canadian 
  French 
  — 
  but 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  translated 
  from 
  

   dialect 
  to 
  dialect, 
  maskinonge, 
  muscalunge, 
  and 
  muscalinga, 
  until 
  

   every 
  trace 
  of 
  true 
  derivation 
  has 
  been 
  lost." 
  The 
  Onondagas 
  

   call 
  the 
  pickerel 
  Che-go-sis, 
  long 
  face. 
  

  

  Ni-dyio'-nyah-a'-ah, 
  narrow 
  point, 
  is 
  Farmer's 
  Brother's 
  point. 
  

  

  Ni-ga'-we-nah'-a-ah, 
  small 
  island. 
  Tonawanda 
  island. 
  

  

  O-gah'-gwaah'-geh, 
  residence 
  of 
  the 
  sunfish. 
  The 
  mouth 
  of 
  Cor- 
  

   nelius 
  creek 
  was 
  so 
  called 
  from 
  one 
  of 
  two 
  negro 
  brothers 
  living 
  

   there. 
  The 
  Indians 
  named, 
  this 
  one 
  from 
  a 
  red 
  spot 
  in 
  his 
  eye, 
  

   O-gah'-gwaah 
  having 
  this 
  meaning. 
  The 
  negro 
  Sunfish 
  is 
  men- 
  

   tioned 
  in 
  one 
  journal 
  of 
  Sullivan's 
  campaign 
  as 
  being 
  in 
  command 
  

   of 
  the 
  Indian 
  town 
  of 
  Conesus. 
  

  

  On-on'-dah-ge'-gah'-geh, 
  place 
  of 
  the 
  Onondagas, 
  according 
  to 
  

   Marshall. 
  It 
  was 
  at 
  the 
  west 
  end 
  of 
  Lower 
  Ebenezer, 
  and 
  about 
  

   half 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  Onondagas 
  lived 
  there 
  for 
  a 
  long 
  time. 
  

  

  On-ta-ro-go, 
  a 
  place 
  2 
  l 
  A 
  miles 
  southwest 
  of 
  Akron. 
  

  

  O-swee-go 
  appeared 
  for 
  Lake 
  Erie 
  in 
  1726, 
  and 
  was 
  also 
  applied 
  

   to 
  Grand 
  river 
  in 
  Canada. 
  

  

  Pon-ti-ac 
  village 
  was 
  so 
  called 
  from 
  a 
  noted 
  western 
  chief. 
  

  

  Sa-hi-qua-ge 
  was 
  an 
  Iroquois 
  name 
  for 
  Lake 
  Erie 
  in 
  1701. 
  It 
  

   was 
  also 
  called 
  Cahiquage. 
  

  

  See-un-gut, 
  roar 
  of 
  distant 
  waters, 
  is 
  given 
  by 
  French 
  as 
  a 
  name 
  

   for 
  Murderer's 
  creek 
  at 
  Akron. 
  Morgan 
  called 
  it 
  place 
  of 
  hearing. 
  

  

  West 
  Seneca 
  is 
  a 
  village 
  and 
  town. 
  

  

  Sha-ga-nah'-gah-geh, 
  place 
  of 
  the 
  Stockbridges, 
  is 
  Marshall's 
  

   name 
  for 
  the 
  east 
  end 
  of 
  Lower 
  Ebenezer. 
  

  

  Swee'-ge, 
  a 
  name 
  by 
  which 
  Lake 
  Erie 
  was 
  known 
  to 
  the 
  English 
  

   in 
  1700, 
  and 
  which 
  is 
  equivalent 
  to 
  Oswego. 
  The 
  name 
  may 
  have 
  

  

  