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  U-to-wan'-ne 
  lake, 
  big 
  waves, 
  is 
  Oo-ta-wan'-ne 
  in 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  

   dialect. 
  This 
  is 
  near 
  the 
  head 
  waters 
  of 
  Raquette 
  river. 
  

  

  West 
  Canada 
  creek 
  retains 
  an 
  Indian 
  name, 
  but 
  has 
  several 
  others. 
  

  

  Yow-hayle, 
  dead 
  ground, 
  is 
  applied 
  by 
  Hoffman 
  to 
  the 
  rapids 
  of 
  

   some 
  river 
  unnamed 
  by 
  him. 
  If 
  correctly 
  given 
  by 
  him 
  as 
  an 
  exist- 
  

   ing 
  name, 
  it 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  corrupted, 
  either 
  from 
  the 
  Oneida 
  yawu- 
  

   hayah, 
  death, 
  or 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  yaweaheyea, 
  dead. 
  His 
  poetic 
  pro- 
  

   nunciation 
  is 
  followed 
  here, 
  but 
  there 
  should 
  be 
  more 
  syllables. 
  

   Zeisberger 
  Avrote 
  it 
  jawoheje, 
  and 
  allowance 
  must 
  be 
  made 
  for 
  his 
  

   use 
  of 
  letters. 
  Yowhayyou 
  is 
  Gallatin's 
  word 
  for 
  the 
  dead, 
  and 
  

   reference 
  should 
  be 
  made 
  to 
  him 
  in 
  Hoffman's 
  names. 
  

  

  HERKIMER 
  COUNTY 
  

  

  The 
  grant 
  to 
  Dellius, 
  vacated 
  in 
  1699, 
  extended 
  up 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  

   river 
  to 
  Arach 
  Soghne, 
  in 
  this 
  county. 
  It 
  might 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  

   aresen, 
  to 
  be 
  fat, 
  in 
  allusion 
  to 
  the 
  fertile 
  German 
  Flats, 
  but 
  forcibly 
  

   suggests 
  Oriskany, 
  another 
  place 
  where 
  everything 
  grew 
  to 
  a 
  large 
  

   size. 
  

  

  As-to-ren'-ga, 
  on 
  the 
  stone, 
  from 
  ostenra, 
  rock, 
  with 
  locative, 
  has 
  

   been 
  applied 
  to 
  the 
  hills 
  at 
  Little 
  Falls. 
  Another 
  form, 
  Astonrogon 
  

   or 
  Astenrogen, 
  place 
  of 
  rocks, 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  interpreted 
  rock 
  in 
  the 
  

   water, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  under 
  the 
  rock. 
  In 
  the 
  last 
  case 
  it 
  is 
  applied 
  to 
  a 
  

   rock 
  at 
  the 
  foot 
  of 
  the 
  falls, 
  but 
  is 
  usually 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  whole 
  

   place. 
  

  

  Ca-na-cha-ga'-la, 
  one-sided 
  kettle, 
  was 
  a 
  clearing 
  near 
  Moose 
  and 
  

   Woodhull 
  lakes, 
  but 
  the 
  name 
  is 
  now 
  applied 
  to 
  a 
  lake 
  at 
  one 
  of 
  

   the 
  heads 
  of 
  Moose 
  river. 
  It 
  was 
  formerly 
  a 
  noted 
  spring 
  hole, 
  

   and 
  the 
  name 
  may 
  have 
  come 
  from 
  this. 
  

  

  Both 
  East 
  and 
  West 
  Canada 
  creeks 
  are 
  important 
  streams, 
  thus 
  

   called 
  from 
  trails 
  leading 
  to 
  Canada. 
  

  

  Ca-no-we-da'-ge 
  appears 
  on 
  the 
  map 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Hampshire 
  

   grants 
  as 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Nowadaga 
  creek. 
  In 
  this 
  case, 
  as 
  in 
  many 
  

   others, 
  the 
  second 
  syllable 
  of 
  the 
  prefix 
  Teka 
  was 
  retained 
  and 
  the 
  

   first 
  dropped. 
  In 
  an 
  Albany 
  document 
  it 
  was 
  called 
  Onnawadage, 
  

   the 
  western 
  terminus 
  of 
  the 
  fraudulent 
  Dellius 
  grant, 
  obtained 
  in 
  

   1697, 
  an 
  d 
  vacated 
  two 
  years 
  later. 
  

  

  Cat-ha-tach-ua 
  or 
  Cathecane 
  is 
  also 
  known 
  as 
  Plum 
  creek. 
  It 
  

   has 
  been 
  defined 
  she 
  had 
  a 
  path. 
  

  

  