49. _Nemassipi_, Fish River. In the MS. this name was first written _mixtu sipi_. The name "Fish River" was applied to various streams by the Delawares, but never, so far as I know, to the Mississippi. In the present connection it seems to refer either to the St. Lawrence, about the Thousand Isles, or else its upper stream, the Detroit River, both of which were famous fishing spots. 50. _Talligewi_. No name in the Lenape legends has given rise to more extensive discussion than this. It is usually connected with _Alligewi_ and this again with _Alleghany_. This seems supported by Loskiel, who, writing on the authority of Zeisberger, says, "Nun nennen die Delawaren die ganze Gegend, so weit die Gewässer reichen, die in dem Ohio fallen, Alligewinengk, welches so viel bedeutet, als das Land, in welches sie sich aus weit entfernten Orten begeben haben." (_Geschichte der Mission_, etc., p. 164.) The meaning here assigned to Alligewinengk, "land where they arrived from distant places," is evidently based on the resolution of the compound into _talli_, there, _icku_, to that place, _ewak_, they go, with a locative final. The initial _t_ is often omitted in adverbial compounds of _talli_ (itself a compound of _ta_, locative particle, and _li_, to), as _allamunk_, in there. Bishop Ettwein gives to the word a different meaning. He writes: "The Delawares call the western country _Alligewenork_, which signifies a War-Path; the river itself they call _Alligewi Sipo_." (_Legends and Traditions_, etc., in _Bull. of the Pa. Hist. Soc._ p. 34.) Here the derivation would be from _palliton_, to fight, _ewak_, they go, and a locative, "they go there to fight." The omission of the initial _p_ was not uncommon, as Campanius gives _ayuta = alliton_, to make war. (_Catechismus_, p. 141.) Basing his opinion on an expression in the Journal of C. F. Post, to the effect that Alleghany means "fine or fair river," Dr. J. H. Trumbull analyzes it into _wulik, hanne, sipu_, which he translates "best, rapid-stream, long-river" (_Connect. Hist. Soc. Colls._ Vol. II). Rafinesque, in the MS. of the Walum Olum, gives Talligewi the translation "there found," from _talli_, there, and I know not what word for "found." There have not been wanting those who would derive the name Alleghany from Iroquois roots, as the Seneca _De-o-na-ga-no_, "cold water" (_Amer. Hist. Mag._ Vol. IV, p. 184). But there is no probability that the word is Iroquois. Whatever its origin, the name was not confined to the Alleghany river, but included the whole of the Upper Ohio, as the interpreter Post distinctly says.