[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] castles--sometimes written Theonondiogo. In like manner, _Kaniatare,_ 'lake,' thus compounded, yields _Te-kaniatare-oken,_ 'Between two lakes.' In the Huron dialect _Kaniatare_ is contracted to _Yontare_ or _Ontare,_ from which, with _io_ or _iyo,_ 'great,' we get _Ontario_ (pronounced Ontareeyo), 'Great lake' which, combined with _Tioken,_ becomes _Ti-onteroken,_ which would seem to be the original of Colden's _Tieronderoga._" There is rarely an expression of humor in the use of Indian place-names, but we seem to have it in connection with Dekariaderoga, one of the forms of Ticonderoga quoted above, which is of record as having been applied to Joseph Chew, Secretary of Indian Affairs, at a conference with chiefs of the Six Nations. (Col. Hist. N. Y., viii, 501.) Said the sachem who addressed Secretary Chew, "We call you Dekariaderoga, the junction of two lakes of different qualities of water," presumably expressing thereby, in keeping with the entertainment usually served on such occasions, that the Secretary was in a condition between "water and firewater." Neither "junction" or "quality of water" are expressed in the composition, however; but perhaps are related meanings. Caniade-riguarunte is given by Governor Pownal as the Iroquoian name of Lake Champlain, with the legend, "The Lake that is the gate of the country." (Doc. Hist. N. Y., iii, 1190.) The lake was the route taken by the Algonquians of Canada in their forays against the Mohawks.