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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Adjutsa 
  lake 
  is 
  on 
  Lodge's 
  map, 
  made 
  at 
  this 
  time, 
  and 
  the 
  name 
  

   is 
  defined 
  : 
  " 
  English 
  the 
  lake 
  between 
  the 
  hills." 
  His 
  definitions 
  

   seem 
  quite 
  correct. 
  Ajudishta 
  is 
  spear 
  in 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  dialect. 
  

  

  Ca-i-a-di-on, 
  a 
  Seneca 
  village 
  of 
  1767, 
  may 
  be 
  Caneadea, 
  which 
  

   would 
  be 
  south 
  of 
  this 
  county. 
  

  

  Ca-na-se-ra'-ga, 
  is 
  rendered 
  Ga-nns'-ga-go 
  or 
  Ga-nos'-ga-go, 
  

   among 
  the 
  milkweeds, 
  by 
  Morgan. 
  He 
  applied 
  this 
  to 
  the 
  creek 
  

   and 
  also 
  to 
  Dansville, 
  where 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  Seneca 
  village 
  called 
  

   Kanuskago, 
  in 
  colonial 
  days. 
  It 
  will 
  be 
  observed 
  that 
  Morgan 
  gave 
  

   the 
  word 
  and 
  meaning 
  quite 
  differently 
  in 
  Madison 
  county, 
  nor 
  are 
  

   the 
  words 
  primarily 
  the 
  same. 
  In 
  the 
  life 
  of 
  Mary 
  Jemison, 
  the 
  

   editor 
  has 
  notes 
  on 
  Caniskrauga 
  creek, 
  near 
  Mount 
  Morris, 
  inter- 
  

   preting 
  it 
  slippery 
  elms, 
  and 
  saying 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  village 
  of 
  this 
  name 
  

   at 
  Dansville. 
  French 
  followed 
  this 
  definition, 
  judging 
  from 
  the 
  

   Onondaga 
  dialect 
  this 
  seems 
  the 
  more 
  correct. 
  

  

  Ca-na-wau'-gus, 
  fetid 
  waters, 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Avon 
  Springs, 
  was 
  

   written 
  Ga-no-wau'-ges 
  by 
  Morgan, 
  and 
  was 
  applied 
  to 
  the 
  sur- 
  

   rounding 
  country. 
  Canawagoris 
  and 
  Canawagoras 
  were 
  other 
  

   forms 
  in 
  1779. 
  The 
  name 
  is 
  retained 
  in 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Caledonia. 
  

  

  Ca-sa-wa-val-at-e-tah 
  or 
  Gagh-cheg-wa-la-hale 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  

   side 
  of 
  the 
  Canaseraga 
  creek, 
  near 
  its 
  mouth, 
  and 
  the 
  name 
  has 
  

   many 
  forms 
  in 
  the 
  journals 
  of 
  Sullivan's 
  campaign. 
  Fogg 
  and 
  

   Lodge 
  are 
  perhaps 
  as 
  reliable 
  as 
  any, 
  but 
  they 
  had 
  most 
  names 
  in 
  

   the 
  dialect 
  of 
  the 
  Oneida 
  guides. 
  Major 
  Fogg 
  spoke 
  of 
  this 
  as 
  

   "Gohseolahulee 
  (which 
  signifies 
  spear 
  laid 
  up)." 
  On 
  Lodge's 
  map 
  

   it 
  is 
  "Cossawauloughley, 
  English, 
  the 
  Spear 
  lay'd 
  up." 
  Among 
  the 
  

   forms 
  in 
  these 
  journals 
  are 
  Gaghaheywarahera, 
  Gaghehewarahare 
  

   2 
  miles 
  from 
  Genesee 
  river, 
  Gathtsegwarohare, 
  Gessauraloughin, 
  

   Gaghsuquilahery, 
  Costeroholly 
  and 
  Kasawassahya. 
  So 
  differently 
  

   do 
  men 
  hear 
  and 
  write. 
  

  

  Doty 
  gives 
  the 
  name 
  as 
  Gaw-she-gweh-oh, 
  at 
  the 
  confluence 
  of 
  

   the 
  Genesee 
  river 
  and 
  Canaseraga 
  creek. 
  Gaw-she-gweh 
  is 
  a 
  spear, 
  

   and 
  O-she-gweh-ont 
  is 
  a 
  rattlesnake. 
  There 
  were 
  many 
  of 
  these 
  

   reptiles 
  there, 
  but 
  the 
  allusion 
  may 
  be 
  to 
  the 
  point 
  between 
  the 
  

   streams. 
  This 
  was 
  the 
  site 
  of 
  the 
  earlier 
  Geneseo. 
  

  

  Che-nus-sio 
  was 
  a 
  frequent 
  form 
  of 
  Geneseo 
  in 
  colonial 
  days, 
  and 
  

   it 
  thus 
  appeared 
  in 
  1759. 
  In 
  1757 
  it 
  was 
  Cenosio, 
  but 
  the 
  Moravians 
  

   wrote 
  it 
  Zonesschio 
  in 
  1750, 
  saying: 
  "The 
  river 
  Zonesschio, 
  from 
  

  

  