3ANNETT.] PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES. 73 
Satskill; creek, mountains, and town in Greene County, New York. The moun- 
tains were called katsbergs by the Dutch, from the number of wild-cats found in 
them, and the creek, which flows from the mountains, was called Katerskill, 
"tomcats' creek." 
Cattaraugus; county, village in same county, and creek in New York. An Indian 
word meaning " bad smelling shore." 
Saucomgomoc; lake in Maine. A corruption of an Indian word, meaning "big 
gull lake." 
ZJaug-wag-a; creek in Erie County, New York. A corruption of the Indian gag- 
waga, "creek of the Cat nation." 
Uauston; bluff in Georgia, named for Thomas Causton. 
Cavalier; county, and town in Pembina County, in North Dakota, named for Charles 
Cavalier, one of the old settlers in the Lower Red River Yalley. 
3ave in Rock; village in Hardin County, Illinois, named from a cave in a rocky 
bluff on the Ohio River. 
Cawanesque; branch of the Chemung River, in New York. An Indian word 
meaning "at the long island." 
Cawanshanock; creek in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. An Indian word 
derived from gawunschhanne, "green briar stream." 
Cawker; city in Mitchell County, Kansas, named for E. H. Cawker. 
Cayadutta; creek in Fulton County, New York; stated by Beauchamp to mean 
"stone standing out of the water." The origin is thought by Baylies to be 
purely conjectural. The most noticeable feature to which the name could apply 
was a large rock in midstream below some beautiful falls. 
Cayncos; town in San Luis Obispo County, California. A Spanish word meaning 
" small fishing boats." 
Cayug-a; county, village in same county, and lake in New York. An Indian word, 
the derivation of which is in dispute. The generally accepted theory is that it 
means "long lake," having been originally applied to the lake, which is 38 
miles long and from 1 to 3 J miles wide. Morgan derives it from gvieugweh, 
" the mucky land," while others say that it signifies "canoes pulled out of the 
water." One of Iroquois tribes was so called. Six small places in the country 
bear this name. 
Uayuse; village in Umatilla County, Oregon, named from an Indian tribe. 
Cazadero; village in Sonoma County, California. A Spanish term meaning "place 
for pursuing game." 
Cazenovia; township in Woodford County, Illinois, and villages in Pipestone County, 
Minnesota, and Richland County, Wisconsin, named for the town in New York. 
Cazenovia; lake and town in Madison County, New York, named by its founder, 
Col. John Linklaen, for Theophilus Cazenove, general agent of the Holland 
Land Company. 
Cecil; county in Maryland; 
Cecilton; town in Cecil County, Maryland, named for Cecil Calvert, second Lord 
Baltimore. 
3edar; this word, with various suffixes, forms the name of numerous features 
throughout the country. Counties in Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska, 1~>."> post- 
offices, with or without suffixes, and numerous rivers, creeks, etc., hear the name, 
referring to the presence of the tree in the vicinity. 
3edar Keys; town in Levy County, Florida, named from a group of islands in the 
harbor. 
Heleron; island near Detroit, Michigan, named for Sieur Celeron, commandant at 
Detroit in early days. 
3elina; village in Mercer County, Ohio, named from Salina in New York; the 
orthography was changed to avoid confusion. 
