. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . go, Chickasa-lungo, Chiquesa-lungo, now contractedinto Chickies and Chiques, and applied to the streamentering the river above Columbia and below Mari-etta, on which there once was an Indian town of thatname, and it strongly suggests that this may evenhave been the very location of Smiths chief town Sas-quesahanough. The latter part of the word still re-mains in such names as Rappahannock, Loyalhanna,etc. In the new map of Virginia and Maryland andimproved pans of Pennsylvan
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . go, Chickasa-lungo, Chiquesa-lungo, now contractedinto Chickies and Chiques, and applied to the streamentering the river above Columbia and below Mari-etta, on which there once was an Indian town of thatname, and it strongly suggests that this may evenhave been the very location of Smiths chief town Sas-quesahanough. The latter part of the word still re-mains in such names as Rappahannock, Loyalhanna,etc. In the new map of Virginia and Maryland andimproved pans of Pennsylvania, by John Lenex in1719, revised in 1721, in atlas form, and printed inLondon, we have on the east side of the Susquehanna,from Maryland up, these towns marked, Canoona-wengh (latitude 40° 5), Unondomeras, Ceskoe, Ocquan-dery, and Skawaghkaha. The latter is no doubt ourmodern Swatara. The map extends to latitude 40°30. The river forks at 40° 25. The right branch iscalled Onestega. On the left branch (Juniata?) at40° 12 is Kahetnoge. These are evidently Iroquoisterms. The author says the natives are so much di-. GENERAL HISTORY. 13 minished by civil wars that they have not over fivehundred men, mostly on the eastern shore and em-ployed by the English to hunt deer. Atlas Noveam,by Covens & Mortier, Amsterdam (no date), Lon-don, 1733, on back, gives No. 69 part of a largePopple, lias on the Susquehanna River, from Mary-land up, Conestogo, Indian Fort, Sicasarongo, Cone-\v;iga, Swahadowri, Ganadaguhet, Enwaga-Aratum-quat, Chemegaide, Conahago, Codocoraren, Sionassi,and Seawondaona (Towanda). De Annvilles Amer-ique Septentrionale (French atlas), smaller map,1746, gives from Maryland up, Indian Fort, Skaha-dowri, Chemegaide, Canahoga, Juragen, Codocoraren,Sionassa, Juragen, Seawondaona. It is said William Penn made two visits to the Sus-quehanna River, and was up as far as the SwataraCreek, and contemplated founding a city somewhereon the river. His last visit was in the spring
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