ON CAPE BEETON. 827 



Rev. : LoviSBOVRu Ex. Iul, 20. 17.5S. Similar view. Tower on risiu;; grouinl to tlie left, other buildings scat- 

 tered over the field. There are no men standing beside t!ie smaller tower to the right. In the harbour there are 

 five small vessels and two largo ones. Brass ; size, 23 ni. 



14. Obv. : To Brave Ad.ml. Boscawbn. Figure of Boscawen as in No. 9. 



Rev.: I SuRPvENDBK Prisoner Ex: 1758. Drnconr to the right on one knee, liauding his sword to Boscawen. 

 Copper ; size, 26 m. 



The " Annual Register" (London, 1702) gives a description of a magnificent building of the Ionic order which 

 the Earl Temple erected at Stowe and dedicated to " Concordiae et Victoriae." Among tlie fourteen medallions on 

 the wall, representintr England's victories on .sea and land in tlie four quarters of the world, was one representing 

 the taking of Louisbourg in 1758. See " Conquest of Canada " (Warburton, ii. iO'J). 



XIII. The MioMAO Indians and tubir Language. 



It appears well established that " Acadie" is a French version of a Micmac affix, fdviide, signifying a place or 

 land or district, or other cognate term, invariably used in connection witli another word to show some natural 

 characteristic of the locality. We find tho first mention of the name in the letters-patent of l(i03, granted to Sieur 

 da Jlon-s, wdio was given the right to settle and inhabit " les terres, costes et pais de Cadie et aultres circonvoisins 

 en I'estendue du 40" degré jusqu'au -Itj'- " (see "Quebec Documents," i. 4G). Forming part of a compound word 

 âkilde sometimes might bo mistaken for kadie, as it may be easily understood by reference to the following inter- 

 esting list taken from Dr. Rand's Micmac dictionary : 



1. Wobe-âkâde • • • Swan-land (now Broad River Lake in N.S.). 



2. Apcheechkûmoochwa-âkàde Duck-place (Canard Rive?', N.S.). 



3. Kitpooa-âki'ide Cape Shubenacadie (meaning not given). 



4. Booslooû-fikâde Cape Traverse (" bouselooa " moaning to travel by water). 



5. Ootkoodàkûua-kûde Grave-yard. 



G. Kûlûmooôchwôpskwâ-rdvâde Coalmine. 



7. Wikpeâ-'kâilo Elm-grove. 



8. Nûmûchwâ-'kude Fish-piace. 



9. Utkogûn-âkâde Indian harbour (meaning not given). 



10. 'Mskegooa-'kâde Grass-field. 



11. Sooleâ w-rdiâde Silver-mine- 



12. Krisàwogwû-âkâde Iron-mine. 



13. Soolâ-'kâde Mira river (meaning not given). 



14. Wcnjoosoon-âkâde Apple- place or orchard. 



1.5. Madooesw-âkâde Porcupine-place. 



10. Bàslooû-âkilde St. Peter's island (meaning not given). 



17. Segubun-fikade Ground-nut place (Shubenacadie). 



A note by the editor of Dr. Kohl's " Documentary History of Maine, in the collections of the Maine Historical 

 Society (i. 234, 23.5, n), on the authority of Porter C. Bliss, a thorough student of the Indian dialects, gives the 

 same meaning to Acadie, whose " origin is ahki, laud or place, with da, a particle of admiration added ; trauslated 

 by Rale, voilà, there, implying abundance." Rev. Dr. Patterson, in his " History of the County of Pictou, N.S." 

 (Montreal, etc., 1877) tells us that "every prominent object, whether hill or river, streamlet or lake, headland or 

 island, had its appropriato designation in their [Micmacs] language," and he gives (pp. 31, 32) a few of the IMicmac 

 names witli the meanings, obviously furnished by Dr. Rand, from whom I liave quoted tho foregoing list. See 

 also Gesner, " Resources of Nova Scotia " (Halifax, 1849), pp. 2, 31. 



Reference has been made more than once in these notes to " The Dictionary of the Language of the Micmac 

 Indians, wlio reside in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, P. E. Island, Cape Breton and Newfoundland," by tho Rev. 

 Silas Tertius Rand, D.D. (Flalifax, 1888). The compiler of this valuable dictionary was for more than fifty years 

 a missionary among the Micmac Indians of the maritime provinces of Canada. He translated and published the 

 whole of the new and portions of the Old Testament in the Micmac language, and arranged as many as 40,000 

 words in alphabetical order. Pie also constructed a Micmac grammar and reader. Leland in his " Algonquin 

 Legends" gives a number of Micmac tales contributed by Dr. Rand. The Parliament of Canada made an 

 appropriation to aid the publication of the English-Micmac portion of his laborious studies, and the other 

 part — the Micmac-English — is also in their hands, and it is hoped will soon be published. His investigations have 

 been of great value to the philologist and antiquarian. Dr. Rand was a fine scholar and familar with Hebrew, 



