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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Gar-dow 
  or 
  Garcleau 
  should 
  be 
  Ga-da'-o, 
  bank 
  in 
  front, 
  according 
  

   to 
  Morgan. 
  Marshall 
  and 
  Doty 
  wrote 
  it 
  Ga-dah'-oh, 
  meaning 
  a 
  

   bluff. 
  The 
  tract 
  was 
  in 
  Livingston 
  and 
  Wyoming 
  counties, 
  and 
  was 
  

   reserved 
  for 
  Mary 
  Jemison, 
  the 
  White 
  Woman. 
  In 
  the 
  account 
  

   of 
  her 
  life 
  it 
  is 
  said 
  that 
  her 
  Indian 
  husband 
  did 
  not 
  like 
  his 
  nick- 
  

   name 
  of 
  Gardeau, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  land 
  was 
  not 
  called 
  from 
  him 
  but 
  

   from 
  containing 
  a 
  hill 
  known 
  as 
  Kautam. 
  This 
  is 
  misspelled, 
  like 
  

   many 
  other 
  names 
  in 
  the 
  book, 
  and 
  should 
  be 
  Kautaw. 
  This 
  ex- 
  

   planation 
  was 
  given 
  : 
  " 
  Kutam 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  signifies 
  up 
  and 
  down, 
  or 
  

   dozvn 
  and 
  up, 
  and 
  is 
  applied 
  to 
  a 
  hill 
  that 
  you 
  ascend 
  and 
  descend 
  

   in 
  passing 
  ; 
  or 
  to 
  a 
  valley." 
  This 
  is 
  not 
  satisfactory. 
  

  

  Gaw-she-gweh-oh, 
  spear 
  laid 
  up, 
  has 
  already 
  been 
  noticed 
  under 
  

   Casawavalatetah. 
  Another 
  imperfect 
  form 
  is 
  Gagh-a-hey-wa-ra- 
  

   he-ra. 
  

  

  Gen-e-see 
  or 
  Gen-e-se-o, 
  beautiful 
  valley, 
  is 
  a 
  popular 
  Indian 
  

   name, 
  at 
  first 
  written 
  in 
  many 
  ways 
  and 
  now 
  applied 
  to 
  many 
  places. 
  

   Most 
  New 
  York 
  cities 
  and 
  villages, 
  west 
  of 
  Albany, 
  have 
  a 
  Genesee 
  

   street, 
  so 
  great 
  became 
  its 
  fame 
  through 
  Sullivan's 
  campaign, 
  and 
  

   so 
  rapid 
  was 
  its 
  settlement 
  soon 
  after. 
  All 
  roads 
  led 
  there 
  for 
  a 
  

   long 
  time. 
  Spafford 
  said 
  : 
  "Genesee, 
  in 
  the 
  language 
  of 
  the 
  In- 
  

   digenes 
  of 
  this 
  region 
  is 
  formed 
  from 
  their 
  name 
  for 
  Pleasant 
  

   Valley, 
  but 
  I 
  know 
  not 
  what 
  was 
  the 
  aboriginal 
  name." 
  It 
  was 
  

   probably 
  the 
  same, 
  but 
  it 
  attracted 
  no 
  attention 
  till 
  their 
  later 
  villages 
  

   were 
  built. 
  

  

  Morgan 
  said: 
  "It 
  is 
  worthy 
  of 
  remark 
  that 
  the 
  root 
  of 
  the 
  word 
  

   Genesee 
  was 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  valley 
  and 
  not 
  of 
  the 
  river, 
  the 
  latter 
  

   deriving 
  its 
  name 
  from 
  the 
  former. 
  Gen-nis 
  -he-yo, 
  signifies 
  'the 
  

   beautiful 
  valley,' 
  a 
  name 
  most 
  fitly 
  bestowed." 
  Mr 
  George 
  H. 
  

   Harris 
  said 
  : 
  "Genesee 
  is 
  the 
  modern 
  form 
  of 
  Gen-nus-hee-o, 
  beau- 
  

   tiful 
  valley. 
  The 
  term 
  originally 
  referred 
  to 
  the 
  neighborhood 
  of 
  

   the 
  Seneca 
  towns 
  near 
  Fall 
  brook, 
  but 
  was 
  recognized 
  as 
  applicable 
  

   to 
  all 
  the 
  ' 
  pleasant 
  open 
  valley,' 
  between 
  Mount 
  Morris 
  and 
  the 
  

   rapids 
  of 
  South 
  Rochester." 
  Doty 
  made 
  it 
  Jo-nis-hi-yuh 
  or 
  Geneseo, 
  

   the 
  full 
  name 
  being 
  De-gah-chi-nos-hi-yooh, 
  beautiful 
  valley, 
  but 
  

   he 
  did 
  not 
  say 
  that 
  Degah, 
  at 
  the, 
  is 
  but 
  a 
  locative 
  prefix. 
  Pouchot 
  

   called 
  it 
  Sonnechio, 
  and 
  the 
  Moravians 
  Zonesshio. 
  David 
  Cusick 
  

   placed 
  the 
  Kahkwah 
  battle 
  there. 
  In 
  the 
  journals 
  of 
  Sullivan's 
  

   campaign 
  it 
  is 
  called 
  Jenessee, 
  Canisee, 
  Chenisee, 
  ' 
  Chenussio 
  or 
  

  

  