igit illegible in original.]

"The word Onnota, which signifies in the Iroquois tongue a _mountain_,
has given the name to the village called Onnontae, or as others call
it Onnontague, because it is on a mountain.")

Perhaps the word Oneonta may have the same derivation or a like
derivation as Onondaga--perhaps not. The reader is left to follow up
the query. Among the Hurons who had been conquered by the Iroquois, a
tribe is mentioned under the name of Ti-onnonta-tes. The name may have
no relation to nor any bearing upon the derivation of the word
Oneonta, but that there was such a tribe, the fact is given for what
it may be worth.]

"At fifty miles from Albany the Land Carriage from the Mohawk's river
to a lake from whence the Northern Branch of Susquehanna takes its
rise, does not exceed fourteen miles. Goods may be carried from this
lake in Battoes or flatt bottomed Vessels through Pennsylvania to
Maryland and Virginia, the current of the river running everywhere
easy without any cataract in all that large space."

The last quotation is from the report of the Surveyor General to the
Lieutenant Governor in 1637.

The foregoing extracts appear to contain about all the information
which the authorities at the provincial capital could glean of the
Indians concerning the Susquehanna country, as it was called.

The few scattered natives who remained here after the establishment of
peace, were, in 1795, removed to the reservation at Oneida, and became
a part of the Indian tribes already settled there.

In volume III of the Documentary History of New York, a quaintly
interesting letter of the Rev. Gideon Hawley may be found. The letter
is interesting, because it may be safely regarded as the earliest
authentic writing respecting this portion of the valley. Mr. Hawley
was sent out as a missionary teacher to the Indians.

About this time a good deal of interest was being taken in the
education of Indian youth. For the furtherance of this design, the
Rev. Eleazur Wheelock established a school at New Lebanon, Conn., for
the education of young whites and young Indians. This school
afterwards ripened into Dartmouth college, and was removed to Hanover,
New Hampshire. From this new-fledged seminary, the Rev. Mr. Kirkland
was sent among the Oneidas, and his labors in that quarter eventually
resulted in the founding of Hamilton college, at Clinton. From a
similar school established at Stockbridge, Mass., and which appears to