Note F — CHAP. XI.
Reading edition
The Indian name for La Platte is Nie-borahka, signifying the shallow river; as also the word Nie-agaruh signifies the broken river. This last word might lead to a pretty correct conclusion as to the meaning of the name Niagara, given to the celebrated river and falls connecting Lake Erie with Ontario; for the word is the same among several of the different tribes, who, though they now dwell in the “far west,” may nevertheless have once roamed in the neighbourhood of our eastern waters.