[Ganona] DOCHET (ST. CROIX) ISLAND 147 
tion. I have myself obtained the name from a Passamaquoddy in 
the form Mut-on-a’g-wes, which he defined as “little wild island,” 
probably simply at random. The name occurs several times among 
the MS. of the boundary Commission, later described (page 189) in 
testimony taken from Indians in 1796-1797. One Indian gave the name 
as “ Matnagwish. It was so called because they left their stores, etc., 
there when they went a-hunting, as no Bears or other wild beasts sat 
down there.” Another gave it as “Muttanagwis, . . . which 
signifies a place like a store or chest,” while a third gives “ Muttaneg- 
wiss, because a place where a store to deposit things.”+ This agree- 
ment of the three Indians, apparently examined separately, is 
important in its bearing upon the true meaning of the word, which, 
however, I cannot further explain. 
Of the names placed upon my modern map (Fig. 14), some 
explanation may be given. Triangle Cove and Sand Point are taken 
from Wright’s map (Fig. 12), though the former seems to be unknown 
locally. Treats Cove is used locally and is, no doubt, for the fisherman 
who worked on the island in early days, as later mentioned (page 215). 
Hunts Ledge is used locally, but I do not know its origin. The two 
partially isolated islets at the south of the island are locally called 
_ Nubbles, and I have named one Chapel Nubble, because nearly on it stood 
the Indian chapel built by de Monts (Figs. 8, 14), and the other, 
Wrights Nubble, since it is first shown isolated from the main island 
on Wright’s map, for on Champlain’s it is a part of the main island 
(Fig. 14). When other names are needed for places on the island, 
or, indeed, for other places in the vicinity, or even for estates, hotels, 
clubs, yachts of the neighbourhood, they may well be drawn from some 
of those of the companions of de Monts, later mentioned in this 
paper. 
Maps. 
The existent maps of the island fall into two classes: — first, 
special maps of the island itself, and second, general maps of the 
region upon which it appears incidentally. 
Of the former I have been able to find but five, four of which 
are reproduced in this paper; first, Champlain’s of 1604 (Fig. 8); 
second, Wright’s of 1797 (Fig. 12); third, one made by the United 
1 Compare also Kilby’s ‘‘ Eastport and Passamaquoddy,” pages 116 and 488. 
The name of Little Dochet is given in the testimony as Muttinagwenish, or 
Muttanagwamis, evidently a diminutive of the name of the larger island (rather 
implying that the name of the latter is not a diminutive, as Mr. Gatschet’s 
explanation supposes), and once the two are transposed, doubtless by an error 
in taking them down, as they are on Carleton’s map of Maine, 1802. 

