Schoolcraft gives Tawasentba as the orthography of the former term and regards it as signifying " the place of the many dead," adding that the Mohawks once

had a village there, and that in excavating the road to Bethlehem an Indian burial ground was opened. But the Mohawks never had a village there, and the interpretation is in apparent violanames. have yet to find the name of an Indian burial ground, and espe lation of the custom of the Indians in bestowing

We

cially a stream of water and a burial ground bearing the same name.

The name appears on both sides of the river, ante, p. 374.

HUDSON RIVER INDIANS.

Schenectady* is said to signify

"

Schoolbeyond the plains."

Con-no-harrie-go-harrie as the original name of the " the name is in allusion to the flood site of that city, and says

craft giv.es

wood on the flats." Another authority gives Oron-nygh-wurriegughre as the name of the region immediately around the city, but it has been very wisely dropped notwithstanding its cation,

maize lands.

Canastagione^ a tract in

signifi

Albany county,

mean the great maize land, from onuste (Mohawk) and It is added that Niskayunah^ the maize, couane, great. name of this is present tract, only a variation of Canastagione, said to

is

and is derived from onatschia another Iroquois word for maize, the o and t being dropped.

(O'C.)

Saratoga is said to be derived from soragh^ salt, and oga, a Schoolcraft says the place, the place of the salt springs.