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.

word is from assarat, sparkling waters, and oga, a place, but evidently bases his interpretation on the hypothesis that Sara

The name was first applied, how toga springs are referred to. ever, to the site of the present village of Schuylerville on the Hudson, and

in that

connection is said to signify swift water.

On Sauthier's map the name is given to a lake west of Schuy lerville.

Mohawk He writes

Gov. Dongan endeavored to reclaim the

converts from Canada and settle them here in 1687.

:

" I have done

my endeavors and have gone so far in it that I have prevailed with the Indians to consent to come back from Canada on condition

that I procure

for

them a piece of land

called Seracbtague lying upon Hudson's river about forty miles fort above Albany, and there furnish them with priests."

was subsequently erected there and a settlement formed. In the war of 1745, the fort was destroyed by the French, together

The Iroquois name for the spot where

Albany now