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Pacquetville.— S. 1872 (p. 208). In honour of Father Pacquet 

 Painsec Junction. — Said to be not the French Pain sec = dry bread, as com- 

 monly supposed, but Pin stc = dry pine; the place was called in 1S56 Pine 

 Hill, which later became Pinsec. 

 Palfrey Lake.— Origin? On the boundary map of 1798, but apparently written 

 in later by another hand. As Palphre;i on a plan of 1835. On a IMs. 

 map of about 1S45 Palfrey Mountains are marked between North Lake and 

 Pokiok. 



In Passamaquoddy, Um-quee-mwl/, probably = half ripe, referring to 

 cranberries they used to gather and dry there. In Titcomb's survey, 1796 

 (Maine Hist. Mag. vii., 1.^4, and viii., l')4), as Omquememkeeg . Carleton's 

 map of Me., 1802, and others, have Umqvemenleeg. 

 Palmerston.— P. 1855. Changed to Saint Louis, 186fi. In honour, no doubt, of 

 Lord Palmerston, who became Prime ^linister of England in that year. It 

 persists as the name of a settlement. 

 rarr To/rn. — See St. John City. 



Partridge Island.— Origin uncertain ; translated from the French ; either origin- 

 ally descriptive or else the location of an Indian legend in which the 

 partridge figures. In Creuxius' Latin map, lliGO, as /. Perdicu (Latin Perdix, 

 perdicis, a partridge), though somewhat out of place. In the seigniorial grant 

 of 1672, to Sieur de ^lartignon, it is Isle au Perdrix = Partridge Island. 

 Wright, 1772, has the present form. {Pu-hwek-mik-hee-kun alt. Chamberlain). 

 In Maliseet it is Quak-rrilay'-gan-ik ^= a piece cut out, alluding to the 

 legend that this is the piece knocked out by Glooscap from the gorge at the 

 falls when he broke the great beaver dam (p. 195). 

 Passamaquoddy Bay. — From the Passamaquoddy Pes-kut-um-a-quah'-dik = 

 place where pollock are (Pes-ktU-tmi, pollock, a-quah-dik = acadie, place of 

 occurrence. Nearly all careful students agree upon this from Kellogg in 1828 

 to the present. It was given also by Indians in 179ii (Kilby, p. 115). 

 Gatschet has Peskedemakadi. Mr.s. Brown mentions that the Totem of the 

 Passamaquoddy tribe is a canoe with two Indians pursuing pollock (Trans. 

 Koyal Soc. Canada, V., ii., 3). On the Visschermapof 1680 as Persimeqvnde ; 

 De Meulles, 168(i, Pesmonquady. Charlevoix, 1744, has Peskadamioukkanti. 

 Its first spelling as at present is on a map of 1764 in Harris' Voyages, Vol. II. 

 Called the < irand Bay and Great Bay by Owen, 1770, and others, which 

 may .show that it was la Grande Baie to the Acadians. Visscher has also 

 Oyster Bay for it, and others Laliour Bay, of which the origin is not known 

 to me. 

 Passekeag.— Doubtless suggested by Paticake Brook and given its exact form by 

 analogy with Ossekeag. It is one of the manufactured names of the railroad 

 officials (p. 209). 

 Patapedia.— From the Micmac Ped-a-wee-ge-och' . On the 1786 survey map as 

 Pedainguiack. but wrongly placed, which led later to much confusion. 

 Bouchette, 1815, and others, have the san)e name and error. Baillie, 1832, 

 l)as It correctly placed. The name Mistook or Mistoue has been applied to 

 it, but wrongly. (See Tracy Brook.) 



Pr. loc. Pat-a-pe-jaw, very strongly accented on tlie last syllable and pe 

 ■ scarcely sounded. Cooney gave it as Pidabidjau. 

 Paticake Brook.— From the Maliseet Pet-kik == bend (ox bow), applied to the 

 bend in the Kenebecatis, extended by the whites to the brook, and familiar- 

 ized to its present form. By a further alteration it has become Paesekeag 

 (which see). On a plan of 1811 as Patucake Creek. The name Pet-kik 



