NAMES. 
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There are many reasons for preserving every Indian name which 
can be accurately placed ; generally, they are recommended by 
their beauty ; but even wlien harsh in sound, they have still a 
claim to be kept up on account of their historical interest, and 
their connection with the dialects of the different tribes. A name 
is all we leave them, let us at least preserve that monument to 
their memory ; as we travel through the country, and pass river 
after river, lake after lake, we may thus learn how many were the 
tribes who have melted away before us, whose very existence 
would have been utterly forgotten but for the word which recalls 
the name they once bore. And possibly, when we note how many 
have been SAvept from the earth by the vices borrowed from civil- 
ized man, we may become more earnest, more zealous, in the en- 
deavor to aid those who yet linger among us, in reaping the bet- 
ter fruits of Christian civilization. * 
It is the waters particularly which preserve the recollection of 
the red man. The Five Nations are each commemorated by the 
principal lakes and the most important stream of the country 
they once inhabited. Lakes Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, and 
Seneca, each recall a great tribe, as well as the river Mohawk, 
farther eastward. There is a sound which, under many combi- 
nations, seems to have been very frequently repeated by the Iro- 
quois — it is the syllable Ca. This is found in Canada ; it is pre- 
served in two branches of the Mohawk, the East and the West 
Canada, Lake Canaderagua, to the south of the same stream ; Ca- 
nandaigua, and Canadaseago, and Canajoharie, names of Indian 
towns; Cayuga, Candaia, Cayuta, Cayudutta, Canadawa, Cassa- 
daga, Cassassenny, Cashaguash, Canasawacta, Cashong, Catto- 
tong, Cattaraugus, Cashaguii, Caughnawaga, and Canariaugo, 
