Legler—Wisconsin Place-Names. 
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Lac Flambeau—Torch lake., a. collection of five small lakes,; 
they abound in fish which were formerly taken by torch light. 
(A B) 
Lake Geneva,—Flamed by John Brink, because the lake re^ 
minded him of Seneca Lake, near Geneva,, Y. Y. (Simmons, 
Annals, p. 11.) 
Lake Yieu Desert—See Jesuit Relations, Yol. 16, note. 
Lapham/s Wisconsin, p. 95. 
-Katakittekon (Lake)—Called by the French Lac 
Yieux Desert, from the fact that on an island in this lake there 
was an old deserted planting ground of the Indians. (L) 
La Point—Monungw an a c an in g is the name applied to La 
Point on Lake Superior, and signifies yellow woodpecker. (C) 
Manawa—Chippewa word, he has no tobacco'. (Wis. Coll. 
12, p. 392.) 
Manitowoc—Spawm of spirits. Pagan Indians imagined 
that spirits spawn like fish. (Y) 
- Devils den, from a tradition. (H) 
- Manitomvauk—The home or place of the spirits. 
(Louis Moran.) 
- (Mun-nido-walk)—Spirit woods. (W) 
- Manitouwaukee, River of bad spirits. (Dr. Jed. 
Morse) 
-River of spirits. (L) 
- Manitowokie,, from( Manito, a spirit; auk, a standing 
or hollow tree that: is under a mysterious influence. (S) 
Marinette.—From a Chippewa Indian, whose father was 
French. (Marinette Eagle, July 15, 1876.) 
Mattaw r an—On the sand. (W) 
Mazomaniei—Moose berries. (Y) 
Medford—FTaiued after Medford, Mass., by projectors of the 
Wisconsin Central who lived there. 
Menomonee— (Oh-mun-no-min-eeg) —Rice people. (W) 
Menong—Place of blue berries. 
Mequon—A feather. (Y) 
Michigami (Mich-chi-gum-mih)—Great body of water or 
lake. (W) 
