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form appears to be a corruption by the R.R. surveyors (see p. 209), though 

 one Indian gave me Ab-a-lmhk' as an old word. 



Archibald.— S. about 1836. Said to be for the family which first settled it. 



Aroostook River. — Exact origin uncertain ; probably the Maliseet name for the 

 St. John, Wool-ahfi' -took (which see), transferred to this river, or perhaps a 

 distinct though related word. 



In Maliseet it is Loos' -took (or Loos-ta-gook'); meaning unknown to them ; 

 nor do they identify it with Wool-ahs^-took ; possibly it is not aboriginal, 

 but only their pronunciation of the form Aroostook. Aroostook and Wool- 

 ahs^-took are considered identical by several writers (Maurault, Hubbard, 

 Laurent). It seems to occur first on DeRozier's map of 1699 as Arassatuk, 

 applied to a settlement on the St. John above the Aroostook ; as Arestook on 

 Purdy, 1814 ; Baillie, 1832. has " Restook, called by the Americans Aroostic" ; 

 on Holland, 1803, called Little Restigotiche (see p. 192). Apparently called 

 Rivière Jacques =^ James River, by the French; it is thus on Morris, 1784 

 {Jacquet in Munro, 1783) ; also on maps R. Chun and Machias. 



Arthurette. — S. 1862? Named by Governor Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon before 

 18()3, not for himself, but for the " little border village where Sir .lames 

 Graham lies buried " (Wilderness Journeys, p- 45). This village is in Eng- 

 land, eight miles north of Carlisle. 



Ashabon, or Coal Point. — (Cooney). At the N.E. angle of Hathurst. Pos- 

 sibly a corruption of Goulds Point, which it was earlier called for a grantee. 



Asphaltes, Lake. — Map name only ; loc, AVhite Sand Lake, descriptive. Plan of 

 1827 has Asphalta. 



t^UCpaque. — Former Indian village at Springhill, near Fredericton. From the 

 iMaliseet Ek-pah'-hahk = tide-head or tide-level, which is descriptive. Pole, 

 1745, has Apog and Apoge ; a treaty of before 1754 has Octpagh ; also as 

 Ockpack, Eroupay, Aux pacques, Oak Park, and many other forms ; in Saint 

 Valier, 1688, as Sainte Marie ; later, Sainte Anne (see Hart's Igland). 



Aulac River. — French Au lac = at the lake. At first applied to a village on the 

 lake at its head {Le Lac, Franquet, 1754); Oulac, on d'Anviile, 1755. 



Baéweet Islarzd.— On jtlans for the island above Sugar Island; probably 



Maliseet and the same as Ah-haji'-guit (see Campobello). 

 Baillie. — S. Said to be in honour of Thomas Baillie, surveyor-general of New 



Brunswick when it was founded. 

 Bainhridge, Mount.— {On Wilkinson, 1859.) Said to be for an officer of the 



N. V,.\nô. N. S. Land Co. before 1841. 

 Baker Brook.— (Madawaska.) For John Baker, who once lived at its mouth; 



he was prominent in the New Brunswick courts in 1828-31 in connection 



with his uncertain citizenship and efforts to hold the '' Disputed Territory " 



for Maine (see Remarks on Disputed Points of Boundary, St. John, 1839). 



A monument has recently been erected to his memory at Fort Fairfield, Me. 

 In MaWi^eel, Jla-ma-lee-kec-nok-tay'-couk ; on Bouche tte, 1831, Wariene- 



quamuticook ; others Mcruimplicook, which persists on one of its lakes ; also 



Turtle River, 

 Baker Brook. — (Sunbury.) For William Baker, a former owner ; also Mill 



Creek. In Maliseet, Mes-eem-quips'-kek,which is doubtless the R. JSishampishack 



of the Peachey and other maps. 



