f nine houses, located on the west
bank of Cayuga lake, on the Disinger farm, a mile south of present
Canoga village, and directly opposite the village of Union Springs on
the east side of the lake. Destroyed Sept. 21, 1779.

[159] SWAHYAWANA, was on the farm of Edward R. Dean, in the north-east
corner of the town of Romulus, in Seneca county, on the north bank of
Sinclair Hollow creek, near the shore of the lake, and almost exactly
opposite the important town of Chonodote, on the east side, at site of
present Aurora. Was burned September 6, by a party that wandered from
the track of the main army when they passed up on the east side of the
lake.

[160] TAGHANIC POINT, formerly known as Goodwin's Point. The bank of
the lake both north and south of this, is very much cut up with
ravines, and the lake shore is too rocky and precipitous for an Indian
path. For several miles the trail was back two miles from the lake,
along the heads of the ravines, probably passing through Hayt's
corners and Ovid Centre. From this high ground the lake appears to end
at Taghanic Point.

[161] COREORGONEL, called De-ho-riss-kanadia by George Grant, was
located on the west side of Cayuga inlet, about three miles from the
end of the lake, and two miles south of Ithaca. The main village was
on a high ground south of the school-house on the farm of James
Fleming, nearly opposite Buttermilk Falls. Several skeletons have been
exhumed here within a few years, and the usual variety of relics
found, such as hatchets, wampum, beads, &c. A solitary apple-tree
still remains, a fit memento to represent the race by which it was
planted. When first known to the whites there were five boles starting
from the ground, but these are now reduced to two, and are probably
shoots from the original tree cut down or girdled by Dearborn. The
town was destroyed September 24, 1779. At this time it contained
twenty-five houses, besides ten or twelve scattered between the main
village and the lake. Colonel Butler after passing up on the east side
of Cayuga Lake halted here on the 25th, and found Rev. Dr. Kirkland's
horse in the vicinity of the smoking ruins.

A peculiar interest is attached to this locality and village, from the
fact that here the representatives of a once powerful people, sought
to preserve for a brief period, the last remaining spark of a council
fire that from time immemorial had burned brilliantly in the presence
of assembled nations, numbering