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  Ca-yu'-ta 
  is 
  now 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  a 
  lake, 
  creek, 
  village 
  and 
  town, 
  and 
  

   may 
  have 
  come 
  from 
  geihate, 
  a 
  river, 
  being 
  first 
  applied 
  to 
  the 
  creek. 
  

   It 
  may 
  also 
  have 
  been 
  corrupted 
  from 
  kanyatiye, 
  a 
  lake, 
  but 
  as 
  good 
  

   a 
  derivation 
  would 
  be 
  from 
  keunton, 
  prickly 
  ash. 
  An 
  abbreviation 
  

   of 
  kayahtane 
  is 
  also 
  suggestive, 
  this 
  being 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  name 
  of 
  

   mosquito. 
  

  

  Che-o-quock, 
  Shughquago 
  and 
  Sheoquago 
  are 
  variants 
  of 
  the 
  

   name 
  of 
  Catharine's 
  town, 
  destroyed 
  in 
  1779. 
  Queen 
  Catharine 
  was 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  noted 
  Montour 
  family, 
  from 
  whom 
  Montour 
  Falls 
  de- 
  

   rives 
  its 
  name. 
  The 
  first 
  form 
  given 
  suggests 
  raccoon 
  place. 
  [See 
  

   Shequaga 
  below] 
  

  

  Con-daw'-haw 
  was 
  an 
  Indian 
  hamlet 
  in 
  1779, 
  south 
  of 
  Kendaia 
  

   and 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  side 
  of 
  Seneca 
  lake. 
  Most 
  of 
  the 
  journals 
  do 
  not 
  

   notice 
  it. 
  Ken-daw-ya 
  is 
  given 
  for 
  prairie 
  by 
  Gallatin, 
  implying 
  

   any 
  clearing. 
  

  

  Ga-ni-a-ta-ren'-ge, 
  at 
  the 
  lake, 
  is 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Cayuta 
  lake 
  in 
  

   CammerhofFs 
  journal 
  of 
  1750. 
  

  

  Que 
  : 
  a-nett-qua-ga 
  was 
  another 
  name 
  for 
  Catharine's 
  town 
  in 
  

   1779. 
  

  

  Seneca, 
  an 
  Algonquin 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  nation 
  to 
  whom 
  most 
  of 
  

   Seneca 
  lake 
  belonged. 
  For 
  a 
  considerable 
  time 
  the 
  lake 
  formed 
  

   the 
  boundary 
  between 
  the 
  Cayugas 
  and 
  Senecas. 
  

  

  She-qua'-ga. 
  Thomas 
  Maxwell 
  applied 
  this 
  name 
  of 
  Catharine's 
  

   town 
  to 
  the 
  falls 
  near 
  Havana 
  (Montour's 
  Falls) 
  and 
  defined 
  it 
  

   roaring 
  or 
  tumbling 
  water. 
  He 
  probably 
  derived 
  it 
  from 
  gaskon- 
  

   chiagon, 
  a 
  frequent 
  name 
  for 
  waterfalls. 
  The 
  town 
  was 
  some 
  miles 
  

   away, 
  yet 
  might 
  have 
  been 
  named 
  in 
  this 
  way 
  as 
  a- 
  place 
  in 
  the 
  

   vicinity. 
  

  

  SENECA 
  COUNTY 
  

  

  Ca-no'-ga. 
  Morgan 
  wrote 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  this 
  Cayuga 
  village 
  Ga- 
  

   no'-geh, 
  and 
  defined 
  it 
  oil 
  on 
  the 
  water. 
  Others 
  have 
  called 
  it 
  sweet 
  

   water, 
  but 
  the 
  first 
  definition 
  is 
  preferable. 
  It 
  is 
  near 
  the 
  shore 
  

   of 
  Cayuga 
  lake, 
  and 
  a 
  monument 
  marks 
  it 
  as 
  the 
  birthplace 
  of 
  Red 
  

   Jacket. 
  All 
  the 
  villages 
  here 
  of 
  the 
  recent 
  colonial 
  period 
  seem 
  to 
  

   have 
  been 
  Cayuga. 
  

  

  Ca-yu'-ga 
  lake. 
  The 
  definitions 
  of 
  Cayuga 
  need 
  not 
  be 
  repeated 
  

  

  