The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-21
The Rivers of Georgia.

". Y. Moore in Harper's Magazine.
From the mountains on the northward, how do
Georgia's rivers go?
How to southern gulf and ocean by her islands
do they flow?
From the silvery CHAT-TA-Hoo-CHIE; from the
golden ET-o-wAH;
To the broad aud grand SAVANNAH; by the deep
AL-AP-A-HAw;
From the Jurbid OC-CLo-Co-NEB; to the crystal
TU-GA-LO;
From CHAT-Too-GA to SAINT MARYs, Georgia's
rivers come and go.
Northward TENNESSEE, HIA-wAs-sIE, MOTLEY
and TOC-CoA ~ pour;
Here's ULAF-FIE's liquid laughter; here's TU.
Ro-RIE's toss and roar
Here are HERE and FEN-HAL-o-wAB. WHINING
TON and WIL-LA-Coo-CHEE,
TY-BEE, NEWPORT and OCK-LoCK-NEE, CROOKED
TURTLE, SU-wAN-oo-CHEE,
O-KEE-wAL-KEE Q0) and the So-QUE ~ and the
tiny TEs-NA-TEE.
Mountain born AMIC-oLro-LA, lolling, lashing
through the lea,
And SU-wA-NEE stealing Silly out from OKE-
FEN-o KEE, 49,
TALKING Rock and Coo-sA-wAT-TEE, SAL-A-coA
and EL-LI-JAY.
Oos-TEN-AU-LA, CAN-NEs-Ap-GA-six in Coo-sA
roll away.
Here are BROAD AL-cAU-FAU-HArcHIE IA. SAN
TIRE sauntering AUCHE EHATcHIz,
Leaping terrible TAI LU-LAH (5l olden NEW, and
APPA-LACHIE.
Here the CHEs-TATEE goes chafing madly DER
the rocky steep;
Here O-GEE-CHEE, Tow-AL-IGA and the two SAU-
TIL-LAs 90 sweep
Through the barrens by the cypress and mo-
rasses wide and deep;
Here SAP-E 10, HAN-NA-HATCHIE 40, dark MED
WAY and bright YA-Hoo-LA,
OC-CoL-o Coo-CHIE NOW the LITTLE) %, ITALIA
PoosA and PAT-oU-LA.
Here is FLINT (once THRo-NA-DE-SCA) (s), here
CAS-oo CHEFS narrow tide;
Here OCK -MUL-GEE dark and murky; AL-TA-MA-
HA deep and wide
OccoPILco and Oo-co-NEE and Cocoa, bright
and aD1aU
wITHLA.coo CHEZ, and wEE-LAw-SEE. CH1cK-A-
SAW and all, ....
From the CHAT-TA-Hoo-CHEE chatting, to Saw
AMMAN murmuring low,
Where is heard the Oo-HooP-EE (9), so Georgia
rivers come and 20.
~ ToccoG. A word of similar pronunciation
is found in the Hebrew and Cninese languages,
usually written in English Tekod, or Tek0i. The
word Toccod is Indian, said to mean deep or
high falling water. There are many of the In
dian names that have hkenesses, and even ex-
act Identities in Hebrew and Chinese.
20 SUqae. This is very much like our En-
glish water word soak.
(3) The word OkefenoSee, the name of the
great swamp contains an old Anglo Saxon
has many bordering swamps. The word Oke-
fenokee really means water, or river and swamp.
See note 10.
a. The AicdutInhotchte river is now known
as the Alcoua, the latter a modernized WORD,
the hdtchie dropped. Hatchfe is an Indian
word, meaning river. IL is found attached in
several CT the lnQlan names or The rivers of
Georgia, as well as elsewhere in America.
'Hoochie" and 'oochie" are corruptions of the
same word. There is a creek in Georgia called
Uchee. There was an Indian tribe named
''Uchees." CThe tribal designation of the abo.
rhymes usually was the principal water upon
which the natives we're found originality
(5) The word TdltuL1h is said to mean 1.-THE
terrible in the Cherokee dialect.
(6) There are two rivers named Snutilld.
"a Occolocoochee was the Indian name of the
river now called Little.
49, ThrOnodescG was the Indian name of the
Flint; another tribal name is said TO have been
FteenddeScd The term written "Thro" is
found in only two Indian names in America
once in Florida lake me-Throndtcesassdd,
The term is evidently a mere tribal corruption,
the true word being doubtless Fieeaddescd,
Sea is a term found in the Indian name of
many waters of America. Authorities on the
Indian language say it means in the Indian
tongue, rocky orIrough. Sea in the Sanscrit
means rough or rocky; the term is written in San
scrit also SGT, which is the Sanscrit root of the
Latin word sdGeunl, rock. Many of the rockiest
and toughest rivers In America have the term
S1E or sea in the aboriginal names The Sar-
dpdhGtD is the rockiest river in North Carolina
The Sa.patchdtU0n is the rockiest in Brit sh
America, while the P0tdpscd is the rockiest in
Maryland.
C9) There is an Oo-oopee (river) in Russia
"Oopee" is corruption of Sancrit dpa, water
QOl Okee, or oo9ee is river in India This
word is, therefore, the river WdIkee :" In
Alabama there is the river name written simply
WGAsee. 1t is precisely the same thing as Rus.
sian poe0c, or WotSo, as sometimes written.