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pressly states that he destroyed the grain ''of the small village of 

 St. Michel or Gannogarae distant a short league from the large 

 village" and that he encamped before "Totiakto, surnamed the 

 Great Village of the Conception". At Gannounata, two leagues 

 from Totiakto he found on the gates of the town the arms of 

 England which Governor Dongan of New York had caused to be 

 put there. 



Mohawk names for these villages were given to Governor 

 Dongan by Adandidaghko, a Mohawk, who was examined at 

 Albany for the purpose of getting at the most authentic news of 

 the French invasion. In it (*l) he spoke of the capture of the 



LAC ONTARIO -ULyLUU. 



From Map by Father RafTeix, 1688. 



great Seneca town, which he called "Kohoseraghe", and of the 

 last town, "Theodehacto". 



Abbe Belmont, in his History of New France, (*2) calls the 

 first village seen by Denonville, "Gaensara", and states that it 

 was situated on a high hill, and that it was "a city or village of 

 bark situate on the top of a mountain of earth, to which one rises 

 by three terraces. ' ' (hills) . The other villages he calls ' 'Tohaiton, 

 Onnontague and Onnenaba". 



L,a Hontan described the expedition under Governor Denon- 

 ville and mentioned two villages. "From thence (the great vil- 

 lage) we march' d to the two little villages of the Thegaronhies 

 and the Danoncaritaoui which lay about two or three leagues off' ' . 



*i Doc. Relatiug to the Colonial History of N. Y., Ill, 433. 



*2 Quoted by t-quier, Aboriginal Monuments of New York, note, p. 90. 



