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The lumbermen's names for the rapids, etc., along the river are interesting, 

 and ilhistrate the most simple principles of names giving. Compare those of the 

 Magaguadavic : 



Below Vance boro. Scotts Brook. Ponwauk l\ips. 



Elbow Rips. Rocky Kips. Long Lookum. 



Mile Rips. Meeting House Rips. Clarks Point. 



Tunnel Rips. Grass Island. Kendricks Rips. 



Hales Rips. Haycock Rips. Chepedneck Falls. 



Little Falls. Loon Bay. Grand Falls. 



Tylers Rips. Canoose Rips. Phœnix (? Rips. 



Little Pork Rips. Canoose. Spragues Falls. 



Cedar Island Rips. Dog Island Rips. Bailey's Rips. 



It will be noticed that these are purely descriptive (p. 182). 

 Sainte Croi.v Hiver-— ^^ early name for the Miramichi. Occurs first on 



.lumeau, lf)85, R. de Ste. Croix. Explained by St. Valier, KiSS, and LeClerq, 



ItiUl, as given because the Indians there held the sign of the cross in great 



veneration before they were christianized. Possibly the Po. de S. Croce of 



the Italian map of 1560 (Kretschmer XX.) is this name. 

 Saint Croix Village.— (York). Of course from the river. An old plan marks 



about here, " Eel Works, Kilmaquac, a deserted Indian Village." 

 Saint David. — P. 178(). Suggested, no doubt, by the presence of the other 



saints (p. 204). 

 Saint Denis- — Seigniory, 1672. In Greenwich. 

 Saint Fi'ancis River.— Origin unknown. On Bellin, 1744, ae Petite R. St. 



François; called petite, no] doubt, to distinguish it from la rivière de S. 



François de Sales, the name given by St. Valier in 1(388 to the Madawaska 



(which see); on d'Anville, 1755, both are marked. 



In Maliseet it is Peech-oo-ne^ -gun-ik = the long portage (Peech = long, 



oo-iie-gun = portage), describing the portage from its head to the St. Law- 

 . rence. Bonnor, 1S20, has ^^a^wf^'^ar*. 

 The parish was erected in 1877. 

 Saint George. — P. 1 7S(i. Suggested, no doubt, by the presence of the other names 



of saints, particularly Saint Andrews (p. 204). Originally the town was laid 



out at Letang. 

 Saint Hilaire. — P. 1877. From the church ; suggested by the name of M. Hilaire 



Cyr, who was a benefactor of it (Dugald). 

 Saint Isidore.— S. 1875 (p. 208). P. 1881. An agricultural settlement, named 



probablj because St. Isidore was the patron of farmers. 

 Saint Jacques. — P. 1877. For the church ; suggested by the. name of the bishop, 



James (or .Jacques) Rogers (Dugald). 

 Saint James. — P. l'82o. Sugiiested, no doubt, by the presence of other names of 



saints (p. 204). 

 Saint John. — C. 1785. Of course from the name of the river. 

 Saint John City. — Named in 17.S5 of course from the river. As a map name, 



however, it is older ; Kitchen, 17G9, has S. Johns; d'Anville, 1772, has S- 



John as a settlement at the mouth of the river. When laid out in 1 783 it was 



named Parr Town, in honour of Governor Parr, of N. S. At one time it was 



l>roposed to call it Clinton, in honour, of course, of Sir Henry Clinton, 



prominent in the Revolution. 



In Maliseet and ^licmac Men-ak' -wes, exact location and meaning un- 

 certain. Rand gives = where they collect the dead seals. Also given as = 



