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French Fort Cove.— (Near Newcastle). Descriptive. 



French Lake. — (Sheffield, Sunbury). No doubt descriptive of the occurrence of 

 the French about it in pre-loyalist times (p. 199). On Campbell 1788. In 

 Maliseet, Xem-dit^-kook, though possibly this applies to Little River (which 

 see). 



French Lake. — (Burton, Sunbury). No doubt descriptive of the occurrence of 

 the French about it in pre-loyalist times. 



Frenchman's Creek. — (St. .John). " So named from a French armed brig having 

 escaped from an English man-of-war by entering the inlet concealed from 

 the harbour." (Gesner, I., 1st, 55). 



French Village.— (York). Descriptive of a former French settlement, founded 

 perhaps by Louis INIercure, who was granted land here before 178o, but 

 afterwards removed to Madawaska. 



French Village. — (Kings). Descriptive of an early settlement of French here; 

 they left about 17U0. 



Freneuse- — Seigniory, 1684. Along the river in Sunbury. 



Friars Cove.— From the rock known as the Old Friar, descriptive. In the Owen 

 Journal, 177(». 



Fr onset c- — Seigniory, 1690. On the Miramichi. 



Fryes Island.— For Dr. Frye, who bought it in 1822. On Wright, 1772, and 

 others, L'Tete Id. Also Paine's Id., for its grantee. Dr. William Paine, and 

 Califf's Island for a resident. 



Fryes Lake. — On old plans for the second of the Chamcook chain : no doubt for 

 Dr. Frye, who lived near here. 



Fundy, Bay of — Doubtless a descendant of the Rio Fondo = deep river (?. e., 

 extending far into the land), of the Portuguese maps of the sixteenth 

 century (Kohl, Coil. Maine Hist. Soc. I., 1869, and Patterson, Trans. Koy. 

 Soc. Canada, VIII., ii., 150). 



Rio Fondo is in the Cabot map of 1544 ; probably it is older and possibly 

 goes back to 1500, for, on LaCosa's map of that year, there is in this region 

 a ro. longo, just to the south of which is the word Jonte (see reproduction in 

 Kretschmer's atlas). Rio Fondo or Rio Hondo is on several maps after 

 Cabot, though the bay itself is on but one (Homem, 155S), until towards 

 the close of the century, when Rio Fondo broadens out and is recognizable 

 as the P>ay of Fundy ; it is thus, for example, on the map of 1596 in DeBry's 

 " Voyages." In 1604 DeMonts named it La Baye Françoise, and this for a 

 time prevailed. In 1612, however, we find Biard using Baie de Fundy 

 Relations II., 106) ; it is on Visscher, about 16S0, as Fouxdy (misprint) ; on 

 Coronelli, 1689, as Funda and thenceforth regularly. 



Several writers have derived it from Fond de la Baie = head of the 

 bay, said by them to occur upon ancient charts, though these are not 

 named. I have .seen nearly all known early maps of tlie bay, but have 

 never seen the expression on them, though it does occur in a document of 

 1657 (Memorials, p. 728). In its favour, however, is the fact that on Visscher 

 and some other early maps the name is placed near Minas Basin, though 

 this is perhaps for some connection with C. Fendu, an ancient name for 

 Cape Split (on Morris, 1749, and .Teffreys, 1755). Indeed, Vetromile derived 

 it from Fodinarum = (Bay) of mines, perhaps, because Creuxius' Latin 

 map of 1660 has/jr. Fodinanl (Promontarium Fodinarum = Cape of mines), 

 for C. Chignecto. 



By Alexander, 1624, called Argall's l'>ay, perhaps for Argall, who raided 

 the bay in 1613 ; also on .leffreys, 1755. Laverdière holds (Champlain L, 



