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ANAGWACADIE. The Micmac name for Country Harbour, a very 

 prominent inlet on the southeastern coast of Nova Scotia towards Canso. It is 

 given by Rand as ANUKWÂKÂDE, with the meaning FLOUNDER-GROUND 

 (First Reading Book, 85). The construction of the word is perfectly clear, for the 

 latter part is evidently our familiar -A-I<A'DI-(K), already explained (page 380), 

 while the first part is as certainly the stem of ANAGWAACH, the Micmac name for 

 the FLOUNDER, an important food fish of the Indians (op. cit. 52). Thus the name 

 in full would be ANAGW-A-K^'DI-(K), meaning literally, FLOUNDER-THEIR- 

 OCCURRENCE-(PLACE). 



I have tried, by inquiry of the Keeper of the Light House on Green Island, 

 near by, to find whether the Flounder is particularly distinctive of this Harbour, 

 but have been told that it is so common a fish in all the harbours of that region as to 

 make it impossible to designate this place as especially distinguished by its presence. 

 Further, the generally deep and rocky character of the Harbour does not offer those 

 extensive sand flats to which the Flounder particularly resorts. Finally, the Harbour 

 as a whole has a Micmac name of its own, far more appropriate to its characteristics, 

 viz.: MOOLABOOGWEK, meaning DEEP VALLEY TIDEWAY, as shown 

 earlier in this series (these Transactions, VI, 1912, ii, 191). Taking all of the facts 

 together, accordingly, it seems most likely that the name ANAGWACADIE does 

 not designate Country Harbour as a whole, but some particular locality therein, 

 presumably some sandy cove and possibly its branch Isaac Harbour, which seems to 

 have that character, — a matter to be settled by local studies. Rand himself gives 

 the two words as designating two places (English- Micmac Dictionary, 71). 



Further, Rand gives precisely the same name, in the form ANAGWAAkADE, 

 meaning FLOUNDER-GROUND, for White Point (First Reading Book, 103). 

 The name White Point occurs several times on the coast of Nova Scotia, and without 

 further data it is not possible to say to which thereof this name belonged, though it 

 must have been one distinguished by the presence of sand flats and not ledges. This 

 would fit best, perhaps, with the prominent White Point at Port Mouton. 



It is also possible that the word ANAGWAACH, meaning FLOUNDER, is 

 the stem of NEGOUAC, a prominent place at the mouth of the Miramichi River in 

 New Brunswick, though probably the origin of that name is different, as will later 

 be shown. 



ANKWISACADICH. The Micmac name, in simplified and tentative form, 

 of a small brook between Eel River and Bonamis Rocks, at the western end of Bay 

 Chaleur in New Brunswick. Father Pacifique gives me the word as ANGOISGE- 

 GATITJK, with the query PLACE OF JOINTS ? The latter part of the name is 

 plain, for it is the precise equivalent of our -A-KA'DI-K in the diminutive form 

 -A-KA'DI-JEECH-K (page 377). As to the former part, that is somewhat obscure, 

 for Father Pacifique's suggestion, which would connect it with Rand's ANKWISKl, 

 meaning IT IS A JOINT (Micmac- English Dictionary, 23), does not fit well with the 

 termination, which means OCCURRENCE-PLACE of some natural objects. In 

 this connection one thinks of ANAGWAACH-K meaning FLOUNDER(S), Rand's 

 spelling of which (First Reading Book, 52) comes reasonably near to Father Pacifique's 

 form. It is possible, I think, that the word is thus really ANAGWAACHK-A-KA'DI- 

 JEECH-K, meaning literally FLOUNDERS-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-LITTLE- 

 PLACE, in description of the occurrence of that fish on the sandy flats at the brook, 

 and implying a greater ANAGWAACHK-A-KA'DI-K, not far away (compare the 

 preceding words). One thinks also of the abundant fossils in the vicinity to which 

 the name might possibly apply. Local study will settle the question. 



APCHEKUMOOSACADIE. The aboriginal Micmac name, in simplified 

 form, of Canard River, Nova Scotia, given by Rand as APCHECHKUMOOCH- 



