Cayudutta, modern orthography; _Caniadutta_ and _Caniahdutta,_ 1752. "Beginning at a great rock, lying on the west side of a creek, called by the Indians Caniadutta." (Cal. Land Papers, 270.) The name was that of the rock, from which it was extended to the stream. It was probably a rock of the calciferous sandstone type containing garnets, quartz and flint, which are met in the vicinity. "The name is from _Onenhia,_ or _Onenya,_ 'stone,' and _Kaniote,_ 'to be elevated,' or standing" (Hale). [FN] Dr. Beauchamp translated the name, "Stone standing out of the water." The meaning, however, seems to be simply, "Standing stone," or an elevated rock. Its location is stated in the patent description as "lying on the west side of the creek." The place is claimed for Fulton County. (See Caughnawaga.) * * * * * [FN] The same word is now written as the name of the Oneida nation. Van Curler's trip, in 1635, extended to the castle of the Oneidas, which he called' _Enneyuttehage,_ "The standing-stone town." (Hale.) Canagere, written by Van Curler, in 1635, as the name of the "Second Castle" or tribal town, was written _Gandagiro_ by Father Jogues, in 1643; _Banigiro_ by Rev. Megapolensis; _Gandagora_ in Jesuit Relations in 1669, and _Canagora_ by Greenhalgh in 1677. The several orthographies are claimed to stand for _Canajohare,_ from the fact that the castle was "built on a high hill" east of Canajohare Creek. It was, however, the castle of the Bear tribe, the _Ganniagwari,_ or Grand Bear of the nation, and carried its name with it to the north side of the Mohawk in 1667. _Ganniagwari_ and _Canajohare_ are easily confused. The creek called _Canajohare_ gave a general locative name to a considerable district of country around it. It took the name from a pot-hole in a mass of limestone in its bed at the falls on the stream about one mile from its mouth. Bruyas wrote "_Ganna-tsi-ohare,_ laver de chaudiere" (to wash the cauldron or large kettle). Rev. Samuel Kirkland, the noted missionary to the Oneidas, wrote the same word "_Kanaohare_, or Great Boiling Pot, as it is called by the Six Nations." (Dr. Dwight.) The letter _j_ stands for _tsi,_ augmentative, and the radical _ohare_ means "To wash." (Bruyas.) The hole was obviously worn by a round stone or by pebbles, which, moved by the action of the current, literally washed the kettle. Van Curler described the castle as containing "sixteen houses, fifty, sixty, seventy, or eighty paces long, and one of five paces containing a bear," which he presumed was "to be fattened." No matter what may be said in regard to precise location, this castle was _east_ of Canajohare Creek.