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  Among 
  western 
  names 
  the 
  Algonquins 
  called 
  Detroit 
  Wawyach- 
  

   tenok, 
  and 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  termed 
  it 
  Tiughsaghrondy, 
  both 
  meaning 
  

   place 
  of 
  turning, 
  or 
  turned 
  channel. 
  

  

  Aragiske 
  was 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  Virginia 
  in 
  1686, 
  but 
  it 
  was 
  best 
  known 
  

   officially 
  as 
  Asaregowa, 
  big 
  szuord. 
  The 
  Delawares 
  also 
  called 
  the 
  

   Virginians 
  Mechanschiton, 
  long 
  knives. 
  

  

  The 
  Iroquois 
  called 
  Roanoke 
  river 
  Konentcheneke. 
  

  

  Joquokranaegare 
  was 
  an 
  official 
  name 
  for 
  Maryland, 
  used 
  by 
  

   them. 
  

  

  The 
  Iroquois 
  called 
  the 
  Potomac 
  Kahongoronton, 
  which 
  might 
  

   mean 
  to 
  turn 
  the 
  canoe. 
  Hecke 
  welder 
  defines 
  Potomac, 
  they 
  are 
  

   approaching 
  by 
  water, 
  or 
  in 
  a 
  canoe. 
  

  

  Rather 
  strangely 
  he 
  made 
  the 
  Mississippi, 
  which 
  is 
  the 
  great 
  

   river, 
  3. 
  derivation 
  from 
  Namaesi 
  Sipu, 
  fish 
  river. 
  In 
  1750 
  Cam- 
  

   merhoff 
  was 
  told 
  that 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  called 
  it 
  Zinotarista. 
  D. 
  Cusick 
  

   said 
  it 
  " 
  was 
  named 
  Ouau-we-yo-ka, 
  i. 
  e. 
  a 
  principal 
  stream, 
  now 
  

   Mississippi." 
  He 
  made 
  this 
  Onauweyoka 
  afterward, 
  and 
  this 
  is 
  

   better. 
  Such 
  errors 
  are 
  natural 
  and 
  frequent. 
  

  

  