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Demoiselles. On Des Barres charts, Merry Dancers. Said to be pr. loc. C. 

 Muzzle or Mussel. 

 Dennis Stream.— (Now Porters Mill Stream). Perhaps for an Indian Chief, 

 who may have lived there. Other streams in N, B. have been thus named 

 (p. 189) Denny was and is a common name among the Passamaquoddies, 

 and one of this name guided pre-loyalist settlers to St- Stephen. In a deed 

 1785 in the form Denny's Stream (Courier XCVI). Lakes on it said to be 

 in Passamaquoddy, Subegwagamis = clear lake ? and Pocoicogamis = mud 

 lake. 

 Derby.— P. 1859. No doubt in honor of the Earl of Derby, then premier of 



England. Local tradition attributes it to horse races formerly held there. 

 Devils Back.— Exact origin uncertain, but dates back to the French period. 

 Devih Head in a statute of 178(; ; D. Campbell, 1785, has Devils Back, and the 

 Morris, 1775, map, has Cape Devil; the Moncktou map, of 175S, has Cap 

 Diable (misprinted Biable). It is possible that this, in turn, was translated 

 by them from the Maliseet name of Little River nearby, Kee-wool-a-ta-mok-ik, 

 the invisible beings who did wonderful things (see Little River, Kings). 

 Digdeguash River. — From the Passamaquoddy Dik-te-quesk\ In- the Boyd 

 .lournal of 176:5 as Dictequash ; Mitchell's Field Book, 1764, has Deetwesst ; 

 Dickatca.mt occurs in Boyd's grant of 1767 ; Wright, 1772, has Dictugmtsh, 

 There seem, therefore, to be two forms of the name. An old plan has 

 Meander. 

 Little Digdeguash River and Lakes.— (York). In Passamaquoddy the lakes 

 are Quee-tol-a-quee-gun-ah-gum, which they say = dry meat there. They 

 empty into Palfrey, but a slight alteration in level would send them into the 

 Digdeguash, where perhaps, they once emptied. Their similarity in name 

 in the face of this fact is very curious. 

 Digdeguash Lake.— Origin ? On plan of 1S2!» or earlier. Bonnor, 1820, has 



Nine Mile Lake. 

 Dingletycooch.— Said to be for a place in Ireland (formerly Dingle-i-Couch, 



now Dingle), whence the original settlers came. 

 Dipper Harbour.— Probably for the bird called the dipper, a kind of duck. On 

 a plan of 178(i; by Wright, 1772, seems to be called Duck Cove; earlier, 

 Carriage Harbour (which see). 

 Doaktown.— No doubt for Robert Doak, who had a farm there in 1822 (Statute). 

 Doehet Island.— (Historically, though not now politically, a part of N. B.) 

 Origin uncertain. The tradition is that it was named for a young woman of 

 Bavside, Theodosia Milberry, who visited the island, hence called Dosias, 

 though perhaps the story lias grown up to explain the name. On a docu- 

 ment of 1792 (Kilby, p. 124), as Doceas ; Perley (lecture), 18:>1, has Docias, 

 both of which tend to conârm the tradition. There is nothing, however, to 

 connect the name with Governor Doucett of Nova Scotia. The French form 

 seems to have been introduced by Wilkinson, 1859, who has Doucett's I. 

 In Pa.s8aniaqnoddy is Mul-an-ag^-tves, = place to leave things, i e., in 

 going up or down the river. (Compare Kilby, p. 116.) By de Monts it was 

 named Isle Sainte Croix (which see). Wright, 1772, has Bone Island, and 

 his survey of it in 1797 has Isle de Sainte Croix or I'.one Island, and the 

 names occur in other documents, sometimes as Boon Id. Has also been 

 called Neutral Id. Pro. loc. Doe-shay. 

 Dorchester.— P. 1787. No doubt in honour of Sir Guy Carleton, Governor- 

 General of Canada, in 1786 made Baron Dorchester. 



