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  this 
  Lake 
  Ontario 
  had 
  its 
  Seneca 
  name. 
  In 
  his 
  comparative 
  list 
  he 
  

   gave 
  this 
  form 
  to 
  the 
  Onondagas 
  also, 
  O-ne-a'-ga 
  to 
  the 
  Cayugas, 
  

   O-ne-a'-cars 
  to 
  the 
  Tuscaroras, 
  O-ne-a'-gale 
  to 
  the 
  Oneidas, 
  and 
  

   O-ne-a-ga'-ra 
  to 
  the 
  Mohawks, 
  whose 
  pronunciation 
  the 
  English 
  

   naturally 
  followed. 
  This 
  comparison 
  well 
  illustrates 
  the 
  difference 
  

   in 
  dialects, 
  but 
  Mr 
  Marshall 
  differed 
  from 
  it, 
  saying 
  that 
  the 
  Mo- 
  

   hawk 
  pronunciation 
  is 
  Nyah'-ga-rah', 
  while 
  the 
  Senecas 
  called 
  it 
  

   Nyah'-gaah, 
  restricting 
  this 
  name 
  to 
  Lake 
  Ontario 
  and 
  the 
  river 
  be- 
  

   low 
  the 
  falls. 
  Dr 
  E. 
  B. 
  O'Callaghan 
  enumerated 
  39 
  ways 
  of 
  spell- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  word 
  and 
  there 
  may 
  be 
  more. 
  The 
  river 
  has 
  been 
  called 
  

   Oneaka 
  at 
  its 
  mouth 
  and 
  D. 
  Cusick 
  gave 
  it 
  as 
  Onyakarra. 
  Primar- 
  

   ily 
  the 
  name 
  belonged 
  to 
  the 
  Neutral 
  nation, 
  a 
  people 
  living 
  between 
  

   the 
  Hurons 
  and 
  Iroquois, 
  akin 
  to 
  and 
  at 
  peace 
  with 
  both. 
  They 
  

   called 
  themselves 
  Akouanke, 
  but 
  the 
  Hurons 
  styled 
  them 
  Attiwan- 
  

   daronk, 
  a 
  people 
  with 
  a 
  speech 
  a 
  little 
  different 
  from 
  their 
  own. 
  

   Yates 
  and 
  Moulton 
  cite 
  a 
  letter 
  from 
  Col. 
  Timothy 
  Pickering, 
  who 
  

   conducted 
  several 
  treaties 
  with 
  the 
  Indians. 
  It 
  was 
  written 
  in 
  1824, 
  

   and 
  he 
  said 
  of 
  this 
  name 
  : 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  been 
  sometimes 
  asked 
  what 
  was 
  the 
  Indian 
  pronunciation 
  

   of 
  Niagara. 
  By 
  the 
  eastern 
  tribes 
  it 
  was 
  Ne-au-gau-razv, 
  or 
  rather 
  

   Ne-og-au-roh. 
  The 
  second 
  syllable 
  was 
  short, 
  with 
  the 
  accent 
  upon 
  

   it. 
  The 
  sound 
  of 
  the 
  last 
  syllable 
  was 
  indefinite, 
  much 
  as 
  we 
  pro- 
  

   nounce 
  the 
  last 
  syllable 
  of 
  the 
  word 
  America. 
  I 
  account 
  for 
  the 
  

   sound 
  of 
  i 
  as 
  e 
  in 
  Niagara, 
  and 
  the 
  broad 
  sound 
  of 
  a 
  to 
  its 
  having 
  

   been 
  written 
  by 
  the 
  Low 
  Dutch 
  of 
  Albany, 
  and 
  the 
  French 
  in 
  

   Canada. 
  In 
  writing 
  the 
  Indian 
  names 
  in 
  my 
  treaty 
  of 
  1794, 
  I 
  took 
  

   some 
  pains 
  to 
  get 
  their 
  Indian 
  sounds, 
  and 
  to 
  express 
  them 
  by 
  such 
  

   a 
  combination 
  of 
  letters 
  as 
  would 
  have 
  been 
  given 
  them 
  had 
  the 
  

   names 
  been 
  English. 
  Kon-on-ddi-gua 
  for 
  instance, 
  the 
  place 
  where 
  

   the 
  treaty 
  was 
  held 
  ; 
  the 
  accent 
  being 
  on 
  the 
  syllable 
  dai. 
  The 
  

   Senecas 
  called 
  the 
  falls 
  or 
  river 
  not 
  Ne-og-au-roh, 
  but 
  Ne-ai'i-gaw, 
  

   the 
  second 
  syllable 
  auh 
  gutterally, 
  with 
  the 
  accent 
  upon 
  it, 
  and 
  the 
  

   last 
  syllable 
  long. 
  

  

  Ni-ga'-we-nah'-a-ah, 
  small 
  island, 
  is 
  Tonawanda 
  island. 
  

  

  O-ge-a'-wa-te-ka'-e, 
  place 
  of 
  the 
  butternut, 
  is 
  Morgan's 
  name 
  for 
  

   Royalton 
  Center. 
  

  

  On-di-a-ra 
  appears 
  at 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  Niagara 
  river 
  on 
  the 
  Jesuit 
  

   map 
  of 
  1665, 
  and 
  some 
  have 
  confused 
  this 
  with 
  Ontario, 
  which 
  

   appears 
  on 
  the 
  same 
  map 
  as 
  " 
  Lac 
  Ontario, 
  011 
  des 
  Iroquois." 
  

  

  