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."
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“Every incident connected with the breaking up of the rivers and ponds and the settling of the weather is particularly interesting to us who live in a climate of so great extremes. When the warmer days come, they who dwell near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a few days see it rapidly going out. So the alligator comes out of the mud with quakings of the earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)