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Micmac territory. 



Midgic 

 Nictau 

 A-bay-guit (P. E. I.) 



WagweiiU (St. Mary's Bay) 

 Megadawik (Liscorab lIarl)or) 

 Keeb-amk-ek (Bathurst Harbor) 



Wel-a-raook-took (Cains Eiver) 



Maliseet territory. 

 Midgic 

 JSTictau 

 A-bah-guict (Campobello) ; Bag- 



weet ? 

 Wah-quah-eek (Oak Ba}') 

 Magaguadavic , 

 Keeb-amk-ek (at Lubee and Le- 



preau Basin) 

 "Wel-a-mook-took (Oromocto) 



There is also some 'relationship between Woul-ahs-tuoh or Oo-lahs-took 

 (St. John) and Lus-took (Eestigouche) ; perhaps they are the same word 

 in which case the Eestigouche, 3Iiraiuichi, St. John and Aroostook have 

 the same Indian name. 



In all cases except the first, which is uncertain, the meanings also 

 are identical, proving them to be the same words ; further particulars 

 are in the dictionary which follows. These names are mostly on salt 

 water, and it may be supposed in explanation that the Micmacs once held 

 the entire territor}^ and the Maliseets have driven them out adopting 

 their names ; this was strongly believed in by the late Edward Jack, at 

 least tor names of the lower St. John. But further examination does not 

 sustain it, for there are many names repeated over and over in Maliseet 

 and Penobscot territoiy, which are not in Micmac, and vice verm. Thus 

 in the former are — 



Digdeguash 

 Coak 



Petkik (Paticake) 

 Menascook (Gan- 

 net Eock) 



Kennebec 



Baskahegan 



Pokiok 



Wakasoon (Little Presquile) 



Madawaska 



Klun(|uadik (Hardwood Greek) 



Scoodic 

 Milnocket 

 Nashwaak 

 Pocowogamis 

 Me.sgosguelk (Mus- 

 quash Harbour) 



In the latter are 



Escuminac 

 Wakinutk (Taxis) 

 Causapscul 



But the questions thus raised, and many others, can be settled only 

 by minute scientific study of their philology, and I question whether 

 there is in eastern America a more inviting field in Indian philology 

 than this. 



We turn next to the compo.sition of Maliseet and Micmac place- 

 names. The characteristic which they have most in common in their 

 aborii^inal form is the termination in a k sound, as ook, ik, ek, ak, (ea<j), 

 etc. This is the locative suffix which shows that the word signifies a 



Tracadie Bedec (P.E.I, k N.S.) 



Nebeltook (Napan) Panacadie (Hall's Creek) 

 Napan 



