[ganong] PLACE-N0:^[ENCLATURE of new I'.RUNSWICK 237 



New Canaan. — Granted in 1809 t» settlers, mostly Baptists, by whom it was 

 named ; founded in 1797. 



Newcastle. — P. 1786. No doubt suggested by the presence of Newcastle in North- 

 umberland in England ( p. 204). 



Newcastle Creek.— (Queens). Doubtless because of the coal mines there, recalling 

 Newcastle in England. On a plan of 17S(i in present form. In ^laliseetWees- 

 op-ah'-gel, or Wees-op-ah-glool/ . 



New Denmark.— S. 187?. By Danes from near Copenhagen. Also called Danish 

 Settlement (which see). 



New Jerusalem. — S. Founded about 1820. 



New Maryland. — P. 1850. No doubt for the Maryland settlement. 



New Mills.— Probably once descriptive. In INIicmac, Mal-e-getch¥ ; Cooney, 1S32, 

 Malaga sh. 



New River.— (Charlotte.) Probably so called when newly found. On a plan of 

 1816, with Little New River also. In Passamaquoddy Min-nu-sa'-dik. On 

 Owen's Me. map of 1796, it is Minushadi : Report by D. Campbell, 1802, has 

 Matiasat. 



JVeiv Toivn.—T. 1765, in St. Mary's- 



JVew Warrington. — Captain Owen's Settlement of 1770, on Campobello, at 

 Currys Cove ; named for the port on the ^lersey, from which he sailed. 



New Zealand.— N.B. & N.S. Land Co. Settlement (p. 207). 



Nictor, Lake and River.— From the ^laliseet Nik-lawk, forks, applied to the 

 Forks of the Tobique and extended by the whites to the river and' lake ; the 

 river also called Little Tobique. In Maliseet, the river is Xa[/-guot-ko^-sis = 

 the Little Tobique and the Lake Nay-goot-ko-sis-quis-pem, the latter probably 

 not aboriginal. 



On De MeuUes, 1686, the river is Nipisigouichich, which seems to be con- 

 nected with Nepisiguit, perhaps = little Nepisiguit; and it tîows mtonegoot 

 or Tobique, which flows into Lake Madawaska. Even when the latter is 

 removed on later maps to its proper place at Lake Temiscouata it carries 

 with it the Nictor (Nipisigouichich) and hence the lakes heading with it, 

 disturbing greatly the topography of this region, and the error persisted to 

 near the present century. 



Nicholas River. — See St. Nicholas. 



Jfid d'Aigle- — (Probably the point at Worden's below Spoon Id.) French =^ 

 the eagle's nest. Upon Bellin's, map of 1744, also that of 1755, this name 

 appears on the east side of the river below Jemseg ; at what is no doubt the 

 same place, d'Anville, 1755, has Elabliss'. Frani;ois = French post, which, on 

 Jeffreys, 1755, is French SeW. Just opposite comes in the Meductic, which 

 error is explained elsewhere (see 3Ieductic). Where was this settlement ? 

 On the bluff at Worden's stands the remains of a battery, locally called the 

 old French Fort ; higher up the hill stood, at the beginning of the century, a 

 block house, where the soldiers lived who managed the semaphore telegraph 

 upon this hill (see Telegraph Hill), but the age of the battery is uncertain. 

 By the Maliseet it is called Wa-ka-loo-sun-iis^-is or Wa-ka-loo-ne-say^-ik, which 

 means the little battery ( Wa-ka-loos — fort, but in defining it one of them 

 has called it "Little French Battery"). Monckton's map of 1758 marks a 

 French settlement exactly there. It seems possible, then, that the French 

 had here a settlement, and in early times a battery, perhaps built by 

 Villebon when his fort was at Nashwaak ; it is the best place on the river for 

 such a defence. AVhence, then, the name Nid d'.4?gr/f', eagle's nest? This 

 may have arisen from the remarkable resemblance of the Maliseet Tla-Ao- 



