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  PLACE 
  NAMES 
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  Na-ta'-dunk, 
  pine 
  tree 
  broken, 
  with 
  top 
  hanging 
  down, 
  is 
  his 
  name 
  

   for 
  Syracuse. 
  Clark 
  gives 
  a 
  fuller 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  last, 
  saying 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  

   estuary 
  of 
  the 
  creek 
  and 
  neighborhood 
  of 
  Syracuse, 
  was 
  formerly 
  

   Oh-na-ta-toonk, 
  among 
  the 
  pines/' 
  It 
  was 
  given 
  to 
  me 
  as 
  Tu-na- 
  

   ten-tonk, 
  a 
  hanging 
  pine. 
  

  

  Oh-nen-ta-ha, 
  a 
  present 
  Indian 
  name 
  for 
  Onondaga 
  lake, 
  already 
  

   mentioned. 
  

  

  "Ohsahaunytah-Seughkah 
  — 
  literally 
  where 
  the 
  waters 
  run 
  out 
  of 
  

   Oneida 
  lake," 
  is 
  Clark's 
  name 
  for 
  Brewerton. 
  In 
  this 
  case 
  Seughkah 
  

   is 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  lake. 
  

  

  Oneida 
  lake 
  and 
  river 
  had 
  their 
  name 
  from 
  the 
  people 
  of 
  the 
  

   stone. 
  

  

  Onida-hogo 
  is 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  this 
  lake 
  in 
  Capt. 
  Thomas 
  Mackay's 
  

   journal 
  of 
  1779. 
  Onida-hogu 
  is 
  many 
  stones, 
  but 
  may 
  also 
  be 
  de- 
  

   fined 
  Oneida 
  lake. 
  

  

  On-on-da'-ga, 
  on 
  the 
  mountain, 
  and 
  thence 
  people 
  of 
  the 
  mountain 
  

   or 
  great 
  hill. 
  To 
  express 
  people 
  in 
  full 
  Ronon 
  was 
  formerly 
  added. 
  

   Among 
  themselves 
  the 
  Indians 
  now 
  pronounce 
  is 
  On-on-dah'-ka, 
  

   but 
  in 
  talking 
  to 
  white 
  people 
  they 
  usually 
  give 
  the 
  long 
  instead 
  of 
  

   the 
  broad 
  sound 
  to 
  the 
  third 
  vowel. 
  The 
  name 
  was 
  first 
  known 
  to 
  

   the 
  whites 
  in 
  1634. 
  The 
  Relation 
  of 
  1656 
  says 
  that 
  "Onontae', 
  or, 
  

   as 
  other 
  pronounce 
  it, 
  Onontague, 
  is 
  the 
  principal 
  dwelling 
  of 
  the 
  

   Onontaeronons." 
  In 
  the 
  Relation 
  of 
  1658 
  is 
  an 
  explicit 
  and 
  correct 
  

   definition 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  word 
  Onnonta, 
  which 
  signifies 
  a 
  mountain 
  in 
  the 
  

   Iroquois 
  tongue, 
  has 
  given 
  name 
  to 
  the 
  town 
  called 
  Onnontae', 
  or, 
  

   as 
  others 
  call 
  it, 
  Onnontaghe, 
  because 
  it 
  is 
  on 
  a 
  mountain, 
  and 
  the 
  

   people 
  who 
  dwell 
  there 
  call 
  themselves 
  Onnontaeronnons 
  from 
  this, 
  

   or 
  Onnontagheronnons." 
  

  

  In 
  his 
  Essay 
  of 
  an 
  Onondaga 
  Grammar 
  Zeisberger 
  uses 
  gachera 
  

   for 
  on 
  or 
  upon, 
  and 
  gives 
  ononta 
  for 
  a 
  hill, 
  or 
  mountain, 
  and 
  

   onontachera 
  as 
  upon 
  the 
  hill. 
  The 
  latter 
  meaning 
  he 
  gives 
  to 
  

   onontacta. 
  Spafford 
  said 
  : 
  "Onondaga 
  is 
  purely 
  an 
  Indian 
  word, 
  

   signifying 
  a 
  swamp 
  under 
  or 
  at 
  the 
  foot 
  of 
  a 
  hill 
  or 
  mountain." 
  

   This 
  is 
  erroneous, 
  but 
  he 
  added: 
  "Onondagahara, 
  a 
  place 
  between 
  

   the 
  hills. 
  I 
  wish 
  the 
  people 
  of 
  Onondaga 
  Hollow 
  would 
  take 
  a 
  

   hint 
  from 
  this, 
  and 
  let 
  their 
  village 
  be 
  'Onondagahara,' 
  and 
  that 
  

   on 
  the 
  hill 
  ' 
  Onondaga/ 
  the 
  capital 
  of 
  the 
  county 
  of 
  Onondaga." 
  

   In 
  the 
  earlier 
  edition 
  he 
  said 
  : 
  "Onondaga 
  on 
  the 
  authority 
  of 
  Mr 
  

  

  