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  knowing 
  where 
  to 
  find 
  it. 
  The 
  latter 
  is 
  the 
  present 
  Onondaga 
  defi- 
  

   nition. 
  The 
  name 
  belongs 
  to 
  that 
  dialect 
  and 
  is 
  divided 
  as 
  above. 
  

  

  Kar-is-tau'-tee, 
  an 
  island 
  in 
  the 
  St 
  Lawrence, 
  near 
  St 
  Regis 
  

   and 
  off 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  Salmon 
  river. 
  It 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  called 
  

   after 
  an 
  Indian 
  banished 
  there 
  by 
  his 
  tribe, 
  and 
  is 
  probably 
  derived 
  

   from 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  word 
  Karistaji, 
  iron. 
  This 
  has 
  been 
  corrupted 
  

   into 
  Cristutu. 
  

  

  Ka-wan'-na 
  Lodge, 
  from 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  word 
  kahwhanoo, 
  an 
  

   island. 
  Schoolcraft 
  makes 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  form 
  of 
  this 
  word 
  kawenote. 
  

  

  Ken-tsi-a-ka-wa'-ne, 
  big 
  fish 
  river. 
  Salmon 
  river 
  as 
  above. 
  

  

  Ki-wasa 
  lake, 
  at 
  Saranac 
  lake 
  village. 
  This 
  means 
  a 
  new 
  word, 
  

   but 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  intended 
  for 
  another 
  similar 
  word 
  for 
  a 
  new 
  

   boat. 
  

  

  Ku-sha'-qua 
  lake, 
  in 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Franklin, 
  has 
  a 
  recently 
  intro- 
  

   duced 
  name 
  derived 
  from 
  Gaw-she-gweh, 
  a 
  spear. 
  The 
  guidebooks 
  

   improve 
  on 
  this 
  and 
  make 
  it 
  a 
  beautiful 
  resting 
  place. 
  

  

  Mad-a-was'-ka 
  lake 
  and 
  camp 
  have 
  another 
  introduced 
  name. 
  

  

  Mas-ta'-qua 
  has 
  been 
  defined 
  largest 
  river, 
  and 
  is 
  an 
  Algonquin 
  

   name 
  for 
  Raquette 
  river. 
  Rather 
  irregularly 
  derived 
  from 
  mohsag, 
  

   great, 
  and 
  tuk, 
  river. 
  

  

  Ni-gen-tsi-a-go-a, 
  big 
  fish, 
  for 
  Salmon 
  river, 
  as 
  in 
  a 
  preceding 
  

   name. 
  In 
  1754 
  Father 
  Billiard 
  asked 
  that 
  the 
  St 
  Regis 
  Indians 
  

   might 
  have 
  a 
  tract 
  from 
  this 
  river 
  on 
  the 
  northeast, 
  to 
  Nigentsiagi 
  

   river 
  on 
  the 
  southwest. 
  

  

  Ni-ha-na-wa'-te, 
  rapid 
  river, 
  is 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Raquette 
  river 
  derived 
  

   from 
  Tanawadeh. 
  

  

  On-chi-o'-ta, 
  the 
  rainbow, 
  is 
  Zeisberger's 
  form 
  of 
  an 
  Onondaga 
  

   word 
  now 
  applied 
  to 
  a 
  railroad 
  station 
  near 
  Rainbow 
  pond. 
  

  

  O-sar-he'-han, 
  difficult 
  place, 
  where 
  one 
  is 
  worse 
  off 
  for 
  strug- 
  

   gling. 
  This 
  is 
  Hough's 
  name 
  for 
  Chateaugay, 
  but 
  Sylvester 
  defined 
  

   it 
  narrow 
  gorge- 
  

  

  O-see-tah 
  lake, 
  gray 
  willow. 
  This 
  is 
  a 
  new 
  name 
  for 
  an 
  expanse 
  

   of 
  water 
  below 
  Lower 
  Saranac 
  lake. 
  

  

  Ou-kor'-lah 
  is 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Mt 
  Seward, 
  usually 
  defined 
  big 
  or 
  

   great 
  eye. 
  Albert 
  Cusick 
  defined 
  it 
  its 
  eye, 
  and 
  the 
  idea 
  of 
  size 
  

   does 
  not 
  seem 
  to 
  enter 
  into 
  the 
  word, 
  Schoolcraft 
  giving 
  okara 
  as 
  

   the 
  Mohawk 
  for 
  eye, 
  and 
  other 
  Iroquois 
  dialects 
  differing 
  little 
  

   from 
  this. 
  

  

  