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Kienuka, "fort with a fine view" (Turner) is a name for Site 

 No. 39. It seems quite probable that this well-known name 

 is a variant of "Ga-a-no-geh, the name for the Tuscarora 

 settlement, but E. Johnson translates "Kienuka", as simply 

 "fort". 



Tuscarora, the sixth nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, now 

 on the Tuscarora Reservation on the "Mountain Ridge" in 

 Lewiston. 



LOCKPORT. 

 De-o do-sote, "the spring" (Morgan), Lockport. 



De-o-na-ga-no, "the cold spring" (Morgan) is a little beyond 

 Lockport. 



Ta-ga-ote, "at the spring" (Morgan), Lockport. 



NEWFANE. 



Date-ge-a-de-ha-na-geh, "two creeks near together", (Morgan) 

 is Eighteen Mile Creek. 



NIAGARA. 

 A-qua-ra-ge, an abbreviated form of: 



Ca-ha-qua-ra-ghe, "neck just under the chin", was applied to 

 the Niagara river and perhaps to Niagara Falls. A possible 

 variant of this, "Ca-hi-qua-ge was also applied to Lake Erie. 



Cayuga (Creek), from the Iroquois Nation of that name. 



Date-car- sko-sase, "highest falls", Niagara Falls, (Morgan). 



Det-gah-skoh-ses, "place of the "high fall", Niagara Falls, (Mar- 

 shall). Beauchamp says that neither form is exact. 



Dyn-no-wa-da-se, "the current goes round", the Whirlpool. 

 (Marshall). 



Dyns-da-nyah-goh, "cleft rocks", the "Devil's Hole and Bloody 

 Run (Marshall). 



Ga-sko-sa-da, "falls" applied in general to Niagara Falls. 



Kas-sko-so-wah-nah, "great falls", Niagara Falls. 



