Oswego River (New York)
The Oswego River /ɒsˈwiːɡoʊ/ is a river in upstate New York in the United States. This river is the second-largest river (after the Niagara River) flowing into Lake Ontario. James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea is set in the Oswego River valley. The name Oswego is a Mohawk Indian name that literally means, "place of the flowing out," or more familiarly, "the mouth of the stream."
Read more about Oswego River (New York): Description, The Oswego Canal, The River Course, Pollution, River Sports
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“At sundown, leaving the river road awhile for shortness, we went by way of Enfield, where we stopped for the night. This, like most of the localities bearing names on this road, was a place to name which, in the midst of the unnamed and unincorporated wilderness, was to make a distinction without a difference, it seemed to me.”
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