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Names of Places. "The names of places given by the Cherokees & others of the northern tribes within the limits of the United States, east of the Mississippi, may be of some weight in the scale of evidence to show the countries from whence they originally came. Colonists and emigrants every where give to the countries in which they establish themselves, the names of places which they left in their own country." [Adduce evidences from our colonial history] "In the state of New York, is a mountain in sight of Cohoe, which the Indians call Ararat. Conolaskky? is the Cherokee word for near to. In New-England is a nation called Pequods, so much like the Pekoos of Ezekiel. (Ezekiel, ch: 23 v. 23. - Boudinot, 141.-) There are Indian towns on the south side of the Susquahanna called Konoa. The Jenesee?, so like to the river Yenesee?, which runs into the frozen ocean in Europe. The river Taa after the river Taz, & sometimes Ta in the same country with the Yenesee?. Niagara after the western point of the Euxine, which is called Nagara. The Tenare, as formerly written, but now corrupted into Tennesee?, after the river Tanais. The White Mountains towards Japan, one of the Tartarean boundaries, is the name applied to the Unaca near the Cherokee settlements, which in their language signifies white." 236.