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  nerable 
  beings. 
  They 
  figure 
  in 
  many 
  early 
  tales, 
  sometimes 
  appear- 
  

   ing 
  quite 
  close 
  to 
  the 
  Indian 
  villages. 
  

  

  Ou-no-war'-lah, 
  scalp 
  mountain, 
  is 
  Hoffman's 
  name 
  for 
  Mount 
  

   Whiteface. 
  The 
  word, 
  however, 
  has 
  more 
  direct 
  reference 
  to 
  the 
  

   head, 
  but 
  Gallatin 
  has 
  oonoowarluh 
  for 
  scalp. 
  

  

  Pa-pa-quan-e-tuck, 
  river 
  of 
  cranberries, 
  is 
  applied 
  to 
  Ausable 
  

   river 
  by 
  Sabittis. 
  Poh-po-kwa, 
  is 
  Abenaki 
  for 
  cranberries. 
  

  

  Pit-tow-ba-gonk 
  was 
  an 
  Algonquin 
  name 
  for 
  Lake 
  Champlain 
  

   according 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  Indian 
  guide, 
  and 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  a 
  corruption 
  of 
  

   the 
  next. 
  Palmer 
  has 
  it 
  Petawa-bouque, 
  defined 
  as 
  alternate 
  land 
  

   and 
  water, 
  and 
  another 
  form 
  of 
  Petow-pargow 
  or 
  great 
  water. 
  

   Watson 
  made 
  it 
  Petaonbough, 
  lake 
  branching 
  into 
  two. 
  These 
  will 
  

   be 
  noticed 
  more 
  fully. 
  

  

  Pe-to-wah-co 
  is 
  Sabele's 
  name 
  for 
  Lake 
  Champlain 
  and 
  seems 
  the 
  

   original 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  last. 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  petau, 
  entering, 
  

   and 
  wadchu, 
  a 
  mountain. 
  Hoffman 
  makes 
  pahcho 
  a 
  lake. 
  

  

  Poke-o-moonshine 
  mountain. 
  I 
  suspect 
  that 
  this 
  odd 
  name 
  is 
  

   corrupted 
  from 
  the 
  Algonquin 
  pohqui, 
  it 
  is 
  broken, 
  and 
  moosi, 
  

   smooth. 
  Without 
  contraction 
  it 
  would 
  then 
  be 
  Pohqui-moosi, 
  where 
  

   the 
  rocks 
  are 
  smoothly 
  broken 
  off. 
  

  

  Re-gi-ogh'-ne 
  is 
  one 
  form 
  of 
  a 
  name 
  on 
  Lake 
  Champlain. 
  In 
  

   1763, 
  after 
  ceding 
  a 
  large 
  tract 
  to 
  their 
  Canadian 
  relations, 
  Johnson 
  

   said 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  claimed 
  " 
  from 
  Regioghne 
  a 
  Rock 
  at 
  the 
  East 
  

   side 
  of 
  said 
  lake 
  to 
  Oswegatche." 
  Pownall 
  called 
  it 
  Regiochne. 
  

  

  Rod-si-o 
  — 
  Ca-ny-a-ta-re, 
  Lake 
  Champlain, 
  i. 
  e., 
  Lake 
  Rodsio. 
  

   This 
  was 
  mentioned 
  in 
  1704 
  as 
  " 
  Corlaer's 
  lake, 
  or 
  the 
  Lake 
  Rod- 
  

   sio." 
  

  

  Ro'-ge-o 
  is 
  the 
  same 
  word, 
  and 
  was 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  a 
  rock 
  which 
  

   marked 
  the 
  boundary 
  of 
  the 
  home 
  territory 
  of 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  on 
  

   Lake 
  Champlain. 
  All 
  beyond 
  was 
  held 
  by 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  as 
  a 
  body. 
  

   John 
  H. 
  Lydius 
  testified 
  about 
  this 
  in 
  1750. 
  For 
  25 
  years 
  he 
  had 
  

   heard 
  from 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  " 
  that 
  the 
  Northward 
  of 
  Saraghtoga 
  as 
  

   far 
  as 
  the 
  Rock 
  Rogeo 
  did 
  & 
  does 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  which 
  

   Rock 
  is 
  scituated 
  on 
  the 
  Lake 
  Champlain 
  about 
  ten 
  leagues 
  North 
  

   from 
  Crown 
  Point, 
  neither 
  hath 
  he 
  ever 
  heard 
  of 
  any 
  other 
  Rock 
  

   called 
  by 
  the 
  Indians 
  Rogeo, 
  Rogeo 
  being 
  a 
  Mohawk 
  word, 
  & 
  the 
  

   name 
  of 
  a 
  Mohawk 
  Indian 
  who 
  was 
  drown'd 
  as 
  the 
  Indians 
  say 
  in 
  

   the 
  Lake 
  Champlain 
  near 
  that 
  Rock 
  long 
  before 
  the 
  Christians 
  came 
  

  

  