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As to the actual words chosen, they may be drawn from any one of 

 several classes. First, there are descriptive names; but these are good 

 only when they describe some striking and easily-recognizable quality 

 of the place, and are such as are not likely to be in use or to be 

 adopted elsewhere. Our mountains, however, are not unlike enough 

 to one another to make many such names available. Then there are 

 Indian names, especially when these are familiarized into an easily 

 pronounced form. Unfortunately, however, our Indians appear rarely 

 to have had native names for mountains, and this, of course, for much 

 the same reason that their white successors have none. Again, names 

 may be drawn from those of persons or events prominent in the early 

 history of the province. In these we have a great store of pleasing, 

 easily-pronounced, already more or less familiar, words; and, as 'to 

 their appropriateness, it is surely fitting that the names of those who 

 have laid the foundations of the province should be lastingly commem- 

 orated in her eternal foundation hills. Most of our new names will 

 probably be drawn from this source. Of course such names will be 

 applied, as nearly as possible, to places associated with the person or 

 event commemorated. It is a fact, too, that more honor would be 

 done a person by naming for him a smaller mountain in an accessible 

 and much visited place, than a larger one in a place inaccessible. 

 There should be, too, some proportion between the importance of the 

 place and the prominence of the person commemorated ; the greater 

 hills should be named only for those of provincial prominence, while 

 the smaller may well be devoted to the names of those whose import- 

 ance is only local. 



With the convictions here expressed, and following the principles 

 here recommended, I have ventured to apply names to the more 

 prominent mountains about Nictor Lake and along the upper Nepisi- 

 guit. This region includes some of the highest, and perhaps scenically 

 the finest, of New Brunswick mountains, and is withal fairly accessible. 



About Nictor Lake is a particularly fine series of hills, described 

 and figured in the preceding note (No. 29). The map accompanying 

 that paper, as well as the one with this, show all new names in italics 



Mount Bvmcvrdvn is named for the Recollet Missionary, who, 

 about 1621, perished of cold and hunger somewhere in this vicinity 

 while on his way from the mouth of the Nepisiguit to the St. John. 

 Franquelin is for the great French cartographer, who was the first, in 



