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somewhere near Cape Sable (Murdoch, History of Nova Scotia, I, 111), there is 

 apparently no record of a genuine early English settlement at Tusket, which was 

 indeed settled by New Englanders after the neighbouring Yarmouth and Chebogue. 

 Furthermore, the case seems even clearer for East Bay, Cape Breton, (if Rand is 

 correct as to this locality), for no English settlement is associated with that place, 

 so far as I can find. Thus the idea that our name is a familiarization of an earlier 

 slightly different aboriginal name seems markedly probable. Seeking, however, Jor 

 an animal or other natural object having a Micmac name closely like AGLASEA I 

 can find nothing better than SAKSKALÂAS, which is the Scallop, an excellent food 

 mollusc, which the Indians might secure at the very lowest tides (Rand, First Reading 

 Book, 54). The latter part of this word represents somewhat closely the GLAS of 

 AGLASEA, especially in the form AGLASEA which Rand sometimes uses, and 

 which is nearer the French original. The full names of natural objects were often 

 abbreviated when used in combination with the root -AKA'DI, as examples later in 

 this paper will show. But as to whether the Scallop is especially prominent and 

 obtainable in those places, I have no information, and must leave for decision to the 

 future student of local natural history. 



AJOLECHACADIE. The name, in simplified form, of Todd Brook, a small 

 stream near the mouth of the Jemseg on the lower St. John in New Brunswick, as 

 given me by one of the best informed of the Maliseet Indians, in the form 

 WËLAJAWALLÔÔSQUADIC (in the spelling of my notes), with the meaning 

 PERCH BROOK. The construction of the word seems clear, for the latter part, 

 -QUADIC must represent our familiar combination -KA'DI-K, earlier explained 

 (page 380) ; and it is interesting in connection with the primary signification of this 

 root, to note that my Maliseet explained it as meaning WHERE YOU GET 

 THEM, as stated in my notes taken long before my attention was directed to 

 these matters. As to the first part of the word, the Maliseet name for PERCH is 

 AHTSAB-QUAH LUSK (Barratt, The Indian of New England, 14), or AT'-SAK- 

 WA'-LUS (Chamberlain, Maliseet Vocabulary, 38) while in Micmac it is AH- 

 CHOKOLLO-WETZ (Barratt op. cit.) or AJOGOOLOOËCH' (Rand, First 

 Reading Book, 52). As between the two there can be no question that the 

 word I wrote WËLAjAWALLÔÔS is the Micmac form, though I do not 

 understand my prefixed syllable WËL; and my informant evidently elided the 

 K or hard G sound, as the Indians frequently do. Gathering together all of the 

 facts it seems clear that the full form of this word would be AJOGOOLOOECH- 

 (A)-KA'DI-K, meaning literally PERCH-THEIR-OCCURRENCE- PLACE. 



ALOSOLACADIE. The Micmac name, in much simplified form, of Sackville, 

 in Halifax County, Nova Scotia, according to Rand, who gives the name as ALOO- 

 SOOLAWAKADE {Micmac-English Dictionary, 14). He then adds the explanation 

 "So named because an epidemic of measles carried off a large number of the people 

 there." The origin of the name is thus plain, for he gives ALOOSOOL as meaning 

 THE MEASELS, while the latter part of the word is our familiar combination 

 -A-KA'DI-(K), earlier explained (page 380), making the name in full ALOOSOOL- 

 Â-KA'DI-(K) meaning literally MEASLES-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-(PLACE). 

 The word is of interest as showing the use of the termination -ACADIE in a sense 

 not of ABUNDANCE, or PLENTY, as so many have claimed, but simply of dis- 

 tinctive OCCURRENCE. 



In one of his works. Rand, after describing this case in which many Indians 

 died of the measles, always very deadly to them, quotes this name in illustration of 

 the fact that new Indian names may arise from some striking incident, very likely 

 displacing an older one. 



