Genesee

[ jen-uh-see ]

/ ˌdʒɛn əˈsi /

a river flowing N from N Pennsylvania through W New York into Lake Ontario. 144 miles (230 km) long.

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The village was beyond the Genesee, southeast of the site of Rochester.
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West|Francis Parkman
These rocks are hundreds of feet in thickness, and have furnished much of the soil in the valley of the Genesee.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom|P. L. Simmonds
Jim had frustrated that attempt by forgetting, and blurting out at the dinner table something about Genesee's arrest.
Told In The Hills|Marah Ellis Ryan
Genesee reached to the wooden peg where his saddle hung, and threw it across Mowitza's back.
Told In The Hills|Marah Ellis Ryan

All concealment was about over for Genesee—even the concealment of death.
Told In The Hills|Marah Ellis Ryan