Hochelagans and Mohawks - A Link in Iroquois History by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall
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spots, these figures argue a considerable population.
Below Stadacona, were four "peoples and settlements": _Ajoasté, Starnatam, Tailla_ (on a mountain) and _Satadin_ or _Stadin_. Above _Stadacona_ were _Tekenouday_ (on a mountain) and _Hochelay_ (_Achelacy_ or _Hagouchouda_)[3] which was in open country. Further up were _Hochelaga_ and some settlements on the island of Montreal, and various other places unobserved by Cartier, belonging to the same race; who according to a later statement of the remnant of them, confirmed by archæology, had several "towns" on the island of Montreal and inhabited "_all the hills to the south and east_."[4] The hills to be seen from Mount Royal to the south are the northern slopes of the Adirondacks; while to the east are the lone volcanic eminences in the plain, Montarville, Beloeil, Rougemont, Johnson, Yamaska, Shefford, Orford and the Green Mountains. All these hills deserve search for Huron-Iroquois town-sites. The general sense of this paragraph includes an implication also of settlements towards and on Lake Champlain, that is to say, when taken in connection with the landscape. (My own dwelling overlooks this landscape.) At the same time let me say that perhaps due inquiries might locate some of the sites of Ajoaste and the other villages in the Quebec district. In Cartier's third voyage he refers obscurely, in treating of Montreal, to "the said town of _Tutonaguy_." This word, with French pronunciation, appears to be the same as that still given by Mohawks to the Island,--_Tiotiaké_, meaning "deep water beside shallow," that is to say, "below the Rapid." In the so-called Cabot map of 1544 the name Hochelaga is replaced by "_Tutonaer_," apparently from some map of Cartier's. It may be a reproduction of some lost map of his. Lewis H. Morgan gives "Tiotiake" as "Do-de-a-ga." Another place named by Cartier is _Maisouna_, to which the chief of Hochelay had been gone two days when the explorer made his settlement a visit. On a map of Ortelius |
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