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  Mohawk 
  and 
  other 
  dialects 
  vary 
  from 
  this, 
  and 
  it 
  has 
  erroneously 
  

   been 
  translated 
  pleasant 
  valley. 
  In 
  one 
  journal 
  of 
  1779 
  it 
  is 
  written 
  

   Unedelly 
  and 
  Unendilla. 
  

  

  Ga'-wa-no-wa'-na-neh, 
  great 
  island 
  river, 
  is 
  Morgan's 
  name 
  for 
  

   the 
  Susquehanna, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  well 
  applied. 
  

  

  Kagh-ne-an-ta'-sis, 
  where 
  the 
  water 
  whirls, 
  is 
  a 
  whirlpool 
  noted 
  

   in 
  colonial 
  days 
  as 
  a 
  few 
  miles 
  below 
  Wauteghe. 
  

  

  Ka-ri-ton'-ga, 
  place 
  of 
  oaks, 
  is 
  Cherry 
  Valley. 
  If 
  the 
  definition 
  is 
  

   correct 
  it 
  seems 
  an 
  Onondaga 
  word. 
  

  

  Ka-un-seh-wa-tau'-yea 
  was 
  David 
  Cusick's 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  Susque- 
  

   hanna. 
  A. 
  Cusick 
  gave 
  it 
  as 
  Kah-na-seh-wa-de-u-yea, 
  sandy; 
  and 
  

   in 
  Onondaga 
  as 
  Kah-na-se-u, 
  nice 
  sand. 
  The 
  name 
  varied 
  in 
  places, 
  

   often 
  meaning 
  the 
  river 
  at 
  such 
  a 
  spot. 
  Thus 
  one 
  part 
  was 
  called 
  

   Scanandanani 
  in 
  1775, 
  referring 
  to 
  the 
  great 
  plain 
  of 
  Wyoming. 
  

   The 
  west 
  branch 
  in 
  Pennsylvania 
  had 
  a 
  name 
  which 
  meant 
  river 
  of 
  

   long 
  reaches. 
  

  

  Nis-ka-yu'-na, 
  corn, 
  people, 
  perhaps 
  better 
  rendered 
  as 
  extensive 
  

   cornfields, 
  is 
  a 
  name 
  locally 
  applied 
  to 
  the 
  so 
  called 
  council 
  rock 
  in 
  

   Middlefield, 
  two 
  miles 
  north 
  of 
  Clarksville. 
  French 
  said 
  this 
  was 
  

   thus 
  called 
  by 
  the 
  Indians, 
  and 
  there 
  " 
  various 
  tribes 
  were 
  accus- 
  

   tomed 
  to 
  meet 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  in 
  council. 
  In 
  former 
  days 
  the 
  rock 
  

   was 
  covered 
  with 
  hieroglyphics, 
  but 
  from 
  its 
  shaly 
  nature 
  all 
  are 
  

   now 
  obliterated." 
  The 
  idea 
  of 
  a 
  council 
  rock 
  there 
  may 
  be 
  safely 
  

   dismissed. 
  

  

  O-at'-tis 
  creek 
  was 
  mentioned 
  in 
  1779 
  as 
  the 
  outlet 
  of 
  Schuyler's 
  

   lake. 
  

  

  Oc-qui-o-nis, 
  he 
  is 
  a 
  bear, 
  if 
  an 
  Iroquois 
  word 
  as 
  it 
  seems, 
  is 
  a 
  

   name 
  for 
  Fly 
  creek. 
  It 
  barely 
  suggests 
  the 
  Delaware 
  name 
  for 
  

   gray 
  fox. 
  

  

  O-ne-on'-ta, 
  stony 
  place. 
  In 
  the 
  Old 
  New 
  York 
  Frontier 
  Mr 
  

   Halsey 
  quotes 
  from 
  the 
  Smith 
  and 
  Wells 
  journey 
  of 
  1769: 
  " 
  We 
  

   passed 
  the 
  Adiquetinge 
  on 
  the 
  left, 
  and 
  the 
  Onoyarenton 
  on 
  the 
  

   right." 
  He 
  thought 
  the 
  last 
  the 
  original 
  of 
  Oneonta. 
  

  

  O-te'-go 
  was 
  probably 
  the 
  "same 
  as 
  Atege 
  and 
  Wauteghe. 
  A 
  

   journal 
  of 
  1779 
  mentions 
  it 
  as 
  Otago. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  large 
  creek, 
  giving 
  

   name 
  to 
  a 
  town, 
  and 
  there 
  was 
  once 
  an 
  Indian 
  village 
  there. 
  Bruyas 
  

   defines 
  ategen, 
  to 
  have 
  fire 
  there, 
  and 
  Schoolcraft's 
  Mohawk 
  word 
  

   for 
  fire 
  is 
  yotekha. 
  

  

  