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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ABORIGINAL GEOGRAPHIC NAMES IN THE STATE OF 'WASHINGTON. BY MYRON EELLS. Almota is a corruption of the Nez Perc6 word allamotin, signifying "torch-light fishery." Alpowa is a Nez Perci word, and means " the mouth of Spring creek." The Indian name of the creek is alpaha, which means "spring creek," and was so given because of the numerous springs there. Asotin is from the Nez Perci word hashotin, which means " eel creek," from the abundance of eels in it. Cathlamet is wr1tten Cathlamah by Lewis and Clarke, and was the name of a tribe of Indians as well as a stream. It evidently comes from the Indian word "calamet," meaning "stone," and is believed to have been given to the river because of the fact that it has a stony bed along its whole course. See Kalama. Camas—see La Camas. Chehalis, the name of a river, county, and city, is pronounced by the Indians Tse-ha-lis, and by some early writers was written Chi-ke-lis. It means "sand," and was given to the Indians about the mouth of the river because of the sand there. Hence the early settlers gave the same name to the river and the upper Chehalis Indians, though originally neither was called by this name. Chewelah is a corruption of the word cha-we-lah, which is the name of a small striped snake. It was applied to that place either because the snake abounded there or because of the serpentine appearance of the stream. Chimakum was the name of a small but brave tribe of Indians, which is now as a tribe extinct, who lived near a place bearing the same name. Its meaning I cannot learn. Clallam, the name of a county, bay, and river in the northwestern part of the State ; originally the name of a tribe there. It is also written S'Klal-lam ; said by Clallam Indians to be a corruption of their name for themselves...