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origin of the respective names may be readily copied in print by any 

 who are interested to do so, I have avoided the use of all special signs 

 that are difficult to reproduce typographically, although in repro- 

 ducing the words given by others I have kept rigidly to their exact 

 forms. All of the pronunciation signs from Rand's works are identical 

 with those used in the English Dictionaries, the only peculiarity 

 occurring in his Micmac-English Dictionary, where his editor has 

 adopted the letters tc to express the soft ch as in church. Gatschet 

 and M. Chamberlain both use the standard alphabet of philologists, in 

 which the vowels are sounded in the continental fashion. Father 

 Rasle's words are of course to be read as French. 



Contents. 



A. The place-name suffix — ACADIE Page 376 



B. List of place-names involving — ACADIE ,, 382 



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C. List of topographical terms involving — ACADIE. . . . 



D. Place-names wrongly supposed to involve — ACADIE 



E. Place-names which may involve — ACADIE 



F. Origin of the place-name ACADIE or ACADIA 



A. The application and significance of the aboriginal place-name 

 suffix which survives as —ACADIE, —AQUODDY, or —KONTE. 



In listing, for purposes of comparative study, the Indian place- 

 names, both extant and extinct, in the eastern provinces of Canada, 

 one is struck by the abundance of certain terminations, the most 

 frequent of which is — ACADIE, or some form obviously identical 

 therewith. Not many of these names have survived, only Shuben- 

 acadie and Passamaquoddy, with the less-known Newdy Quoddy, 

 Benacadie, Shenacadie, and Amaguadus in the Maritime Provinces, 

 (Tracadie having another origin), the allied Megantic in Quebec, with 

 Matamiscontis, Nahmakanta, Cobbosseecontee, and probably Moose- 

 lookmeguntic in Maine; but a great many others have been used by 

 the Indians, as recorded in the following pages. The particular 

 termination — ACADIE has also another interest, in that the very 

 abundance of its use is popularly supposed to have originated the 

 historic name ACADIE, of pathetic memory. In this paper I give 

 all of the names ending in — ACADIE that I can find (through there 

 must be more), and incidentally I take advantage of the opportunity 

 to present anew the evidence which bears upon the origin of ACADIE, 

 and which seems to show that the popular belief is not correct, the 

 word having a very different origin. 



