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sists as late as Bouchette’s map of 1831 but then vanishes, and it is 
now locally unknown even to tradition. We have no facts to explain 
the origin of the name; but since we now know that the cemetery in 
which were buried the thirty-five victims of the winter of 1604-1605 
has been gradually washed away, it seems not improbable that it was 
the exposing of their bones which gave origin to the name. 
Neutral.—Although not now in use, this name is well known tra- 
ditionally. I have been told by a very old resident that it originated 
at the time of the war of 1812, when, as later mentioned (page 213) 
the British and American vessels met here to exchange their cargoes 
of plaster, as upon neutral ground. The earliest use of it I have 
found is in Williamson’s History of Maine of 1839, when he says, 
“the inhabitants often call it Neutral Island.” It occurs in the deed 
later mentioned of 1856, and is mentioned by Kilby and several other 
writers. 
Big (or Great).— These forms appear not now to be used, but 
they occur in deeds of 1820 and 1869, later mentioned (pages 214, 217). 
The name, of course, was by way of contrast with Little Dochet, these 
two being the only islands in that vicinity. 
De Monts— This name was formally given in 1866 by officers 
of the United States Coast Survey, as described on a later page. 
Parkman in his “ Pioneers of France,” published the preceding year, 
speaks of it as De Monts Island, though evidently using the word 
descriptively and not as a proper name for the island, and it was, per- 
haps, this use, fresh in their minds, which led the Coast Survey officers 
to adopt it. Jam informed by the Superintendent of the Coast Sur- 
vey that “ Professor Hilgard in 1866 named it DeMonts Island, and 
for several years subsequently Dochet and DeMonts were used indif- 
ferently, but the latter afterwards disappeared entirely from Light- 
house Lists and from Hydrographic Office Charts.” I have not seen 
any chart or other government publication using the name, though 
it is adopted in Brown’s “Coasting Voyages in the Gulf of Maine” 
(in Collections Maine Historical Society VII). Kilby, in his “ East- 
port and Passamaquoddy ” (page 126), suggests, apparently indepen- 
dently of earlier use, that it should be called DeMonts Island. But 
the name has never come into use, and is quite unknown locally for 
the island.* 
+ The name is, however, coming locally into use for the point at the Devils 
Head on which the summer cottages are built. A few years ago a small sum- 
mer hotel was built here in a small new clearing, and named, appropriately, 
‘ Hotel De Monts,” (shown on Figure 15). It speedily became popular, and 
cottages were built near it, so that the place in general, which is isolated by a 
long extent of woods from the highway and other settlements, soon became 
known locally simply as DeMonts. In 1901 the hotel was burned and has not 
