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  NAMES 
  OF 
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  YORK 
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  afternoon." 
  Nahiwi, 
  down 
  the 
  river, 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  writer, 
  with 
  

   locative, 
  suggests 
  a 
  fair 
  derivation. 
  

  

  Sha-wan-gunk 
  has 
  been 
  derived 
  from 
  shongum, 
  white, 
  making 
  it 
  

   white 
  stone. 
  More 
  probably 
  it 
  is 
  southern 
  rocks 
  or 
  hills. 
  It 
  has 
  

   been 
  more 
  fully 
  treated 
  under 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  Orange 
  county. 
  

  

  Ten-na-nah 
  or 
  Tenannah. 
  

  

  Toch-pol-lock 
  creek, 
  near 
  Callicoon. 
  

  

  To-ron-to 
  pond. 
  Morgan 
  elsewhere 
  gives 
  Toronto 
  as 
  De-on'-do, 
  

   log 
  floating 
  on 
  the 
  water. 
  Here, 
  of 
  course, 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  recent 
  name. 
  

  

  Wil-lo-we-moc 
  or 
  Williwemack 
  creek 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  town 
  of 
  Rockland, 
  

   and 
  may 
  be 
  from 
  wulagamike, 
  bottom 
  land. 
  

  

  All 
  these 
  are 
  Algonquin 
  names 
  but 
  one. 
  

  

  TIOGA 
  COUNTY 
  

  

  Ah-wa'-ga, 
  where 
  the 
  valley 
  widens, 
  is 
  Morgan's 
  name 
  for 
  

   Owego, 
  but 
  no 
  early 
  writer 
  gives 
  this 
  form. 
  

  

  Ap-a-la'-chin 
  creek 
  is 
  Appalacon 
  on 
  a 
  map 
  of 
  1825. 
  

  

  Ca-ne-wa'-na. 
  N. 
  P. 
  Willis 
  gave 
  this 
  as 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  a 
  place 
  

   between 
  his 
  home 
  at 
  Glenmary 
  and 
  Owego. 
  Gay's 
  Historical 
  

   Gazetteer 
  of 
  Tioga 
  County, 
  1888, 
  says 
  that 
  part 
  of 
  Owego, 
  near 
  

   the 
  mouth 
  of 
  Owego 
  or 
  Canawana 
  creek, 
  was 
  called 
  Canewanah. 
  

   This 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  from 
  Newana 
  Canoeush, 
  little 
  living 
  

   water, 
  in 
  the 
  Seneca 
  dialect, 
  from 
  Indian 
  Spring, 
  west 
  of 
  Owego 
  

   creek 
  and 
  north 
  of 
  Main 
  street 
  bridge. 
  This 
  word 
  comes 
  very 
  near 
  

   Solomon 
  Southwick's 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  Chemung, 
  in 
  the 
  Sullivan 
  cam- 
  

   paign, 
  which 
  is 
  Conewawa, 
  head 
  on 
  a 
  pole. 
  

  

  Cat'-a-tunk 
  creek 
  is 
  a 
  tributary 
  of 
  Owego 
  creek, 
  and 
  its 
  name 
  

   seems 
  Algonquin, 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  name 
  being 
  quite 
  different. 
  It 
  may 
  

   mean 
  the 
  principal 
  stream. 
  

  

  Ca-rant'-ouan, 
  big 
  tree, 
  seems 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  village 
  of 
  the 
  

   Carantouanis 
  in 
  1615, 
  at 
  or 
  near 
  Waverly 
  and 
  between 
  the 
  Susque- 
  

   hanna 
  and 
  Chemung 
  rivers. 
  

  

  Ca-yu'-ta 
  creek 
  may 
  be 
  simply 
  a 
  form 
  of 
  geihahate, 
  a 
  river. 
  

  

  Ga-na-to-che'-rat 
  was 
  a 
  Cayuga 
  village 
  on 
  the 
  Chemung 
  and 
  near 
  

   Waverly, 
  visited 
  by 
  Cammerhoff 
  in 
  1750. 
  Hence 
  this 
  was 
  the 
  

   Cayuga 
  branch, 
  and 
  the 
  name 
  may 
  mean 
  the 
  last 
  village 
  of 
  the 
  

   Cayugas, 
  or 
  more 
  exactly 
  village 
  at 
  the 
  end. 
  

  

  Ga-now-tach-ge-rage, 
  there 
  lies 
  the 
  creek 
  or 
  village, 
  indicating 
  

  

  