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  from 
  metai 
  and 
  awuk 
  for 
  some 
  place, 
  but 
  the 
  word 
  simply 
  means 
  

   a 
  tree. 
  

  

  No-do-ne'-yo, 
  interpreted 
  hill 
  of 
  the 
  wind 
  by 
  some, 
  is 
  another 
  of 
  

   Hoffman's 
  names 
  now 
  given 
  to 
  Hurricane 
  Peak. 
  Both 
  these 
  inter- 
  

   pretations 
  must 
  allow 
  for 
  some 
  corruption 
  of 
  the 
  names, 
  and 
  the 
  

   last 
  may 
  be 
  simply 
  a 
  great 
  hill. 
  

  

  O-je-en-rud'-de, 
  where 
  the 
  French 
  proposed 
  a 
  fort 
  in 
  1700, 
  seems 
  

   to 
  be 
  Ticonderoga, 
  and 
  the 
  next 
  a 
  variant 
  of 
  this 
  name. 
  

  

  O-chi-a-ren'-ty. 
  In 
  1686 
  Governor 
  Dongan 
  recalled 
  the 
  emigrant 
  

   Mohawks 
  from 
  the 
  Sault 
  St 
  Louis, 
  and 
  offered 
  to 
  " 
  give 
  them 
  land 
  

   at 
  the 
  fishery 
  of 
  Ochiarenty." 
  The 
  name 
  closely 
  resembles 
  Ojeen- 
  

   rudde, 
  and 
  the 
  fishery 
  might 
  naturally 
  be 
  at 
  Ticonderoga 
  falls. 
  

   Ochia, 
  by 
  itself, 
  means 
  fruit 
  of 
  any 
  kind. 
  

  

  Ogh-ra'-ro, 
  probably 
  Mt 
  Trembleau 
  point 
  or 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  

   Ausable, 
  was 
  a 
  place 
  at 
  which 
  Capt. 
  John 
  Schuyler 
  stopped 
  in 
  1690. 
  

   It 
  may 
  be 
  corrupted 
  from 
  owarough, 
  meat, 
  referring 
  to 
  a 
  place 
  

   where 
  this 
  was 
  abundant. 
  

  

  On-de'-wa, 
  for 
  Mt 
  Pharaoh 
  on 
  Schroon 
  lake, 
  has 
  been 
  inter- 
  

   preted 
  black 
  mountain, 
  a 
  palpable 
  error. 
  A 
  good 
  authority 
  defines 
  

   it 
  coining 
  again, 
  in 
  its 
  use 
  elsewhere. 
  

  

  O-ne-a-da'-lote 
  was 
  the 
  Oneida 
  name 
  for 
  Lake 
  Champlain 
  accord- 
  

   ing 
  to 
  Morgan, 
  but 
  he 
  said 
  the 
  meaning 
  was 
  lost. 
  The 
  whole 
  word, 
  

   however, 
  is 
  simply 
  a 
  lake. 
  

  

  O-no-ro-no'-rum, 
  bald 
  head, 
  is 
  now 
  applied 
  to 
  Bald 
  Peak 
  in 
  North 
  

   Hudson. 
  It 
  is 
  from 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  an 
  early 
  Mohawk 
  chief, 
  the 
  last 
  

   syllable 
  of 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  persistently 
  misspelled. 
  He 
  was 
  some- 
  

   times 
  called 
  Bald 
  Pate. 
  

  

  On-nis'-ske 
  is 
  a 
  new 
  name 
  for 
  Pharaoh 
  lake, 
  and 
  has 
  been 
  inter- 
  

   preted 
  white 
  or 
  silver 
  lake. 
  The 
  word 
  used 
  is 
  far 
  away 
  from 
  the 
  

   Mohawk, 
  but 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  first 
  written 
  in 
  Onondaga 
  and 
  

   changed 
  in 
  transmission. 
  In 
  that 
  dialect 
  o-whees-tah 
  is 
  silver, 
  and 
  

   o-wi-ka-ish-ta, 
  white. 
  Of 
  course 
  no 
  Indian 
  ever 
  called 
  a 
  lake 
  silver, 
  

   in 
  early 
  days. 
  

  

  Os-ten-wan'-ne, 
  literally 
  great 
  rock, 
  is 
  a 
  recent 
  name 
  for 
  Indian 
  

   Pass. 
  

  

  Ot-ne-yar'-heh, 
  stone 
  giants, 
  is 
  Hoffman's 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  same 
  

   place. 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  name 
  by 
  which 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  called 
  these 
  invul- 
  

  

  