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WAKÀDE, meaning RESORT OF THE BLACK DUCK {First Reading Book, 86). 

 He gives the name of the Black Duck, one of the most important game birds of 

 Nova Scotia, as APCHECHKUMOOCH, {op. cit. 46; English- Micmac Dictionary, 

 93), while the remainder of the word is also clear, involving our familiar A-KA'D I (K). 

 Thus the word would be APCHECHKÛMOOCH-WÂ-KA'DI-K, meaning literally 

 BLACK DUCK-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-PLACE. Rand seems to trip when he 

 makes the same word mean "place abounding in little ducks" {Micmac- English 

 Dictionary, 180). The appropriateness of the name to the place is attested by its 

 present name, which of course is merely the French word for Duck, though it is not clear 

 whether Canard was a translation into French of the Indian name, or given in- 

 dependently for the abundance of those birds there. This River is distinguished by 

 the great marshes that border it, precisely such places as the Black Duck most 

 prefers. 



Exactly the same name, in the form APCHECHKUMOOCH-WAAKADE, 

 with the meaning DUCKLAND, is given as the Micmac name of East River (Pictou) 

 by G. Patterson, evidently on Rand's authority, in his History of the County of 

 Pictou, 1877, 32. 



The same word exactly is given also by Rand as a topographical term {English- 

 Micmac Dictionary, 93), and therefore may have become a place-name in other 

 instances also. 



ASUGADICH. The Micmac name for Clam Harbour, according to Rand, 

 who gives the name in the form AÂSÛGÂDÏCH or ASUKADITC (the TC = CH), 

 with the meaning CLAM GROUND or PLACE OF CLAMS {First Reading Book, 

 85; Micmac-English Dictionary, 180). The construction of the word is perfectly 

 clear, since the latter part is evidently our familiar combination A-KA'DI-(K), 

 already explained (page 380), while the final -TC (or CH) must represent a form of 

 the softened locative K, and not a diminutive CHICH, as might at first be inferred. 

 Rand gives AAS as the Micmac word for CLAM {First Reading Book, 53). Thus 

 the full form of the word would be AAS-A-KA'DI-CH, meaning literally CLAMS- 

 THEIR-OCCURRENCE-PLACE. 



It is also possible that the name ASEEDIK, which Rand gives as the name of 

 Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, with the meaning CLAM LAND, is simply a shortened 

 form of this same name, {First Reading Book, 91). 



Rand does not definitely locate this Clam Harbour, but no doubt he referred to 

 the well-known place of that name on Clam Bay, between Jeddore and Ship Harbour, 

 east of Halifax in Nova Scotia. Presumably the name is accurately descriptive. 



In his Micmac-English Dictionary, 180, Rand gives the evidently identical name 

 ASUKADITC as applying to St. Esprit, Cape Breton, a salt-water Lake and an 

 Island on the south coast. 



BASELACAD IE. The Micmac name, in simplified form, of two places in 

 Prince Edward Island. 



(1). Cape Traverse, on the southwest coast, is given by Rand as BUSLOOA- 

 KADE or BOOSLOOAAkADE, meaning SEA-COWGROUND {First Reading 

 Book, 85; English- Micmac Dictionary, 51). The construction of the word seems 

 clear, for the latter part is obviously our familiar combination -WA-KA'DI(K), 

 earlier explained (page 380), while the former part would seem to involve a word 

 meaning SEA-COW. The ordinary Micmac word for the sea-cow, which is of 

 course the Walrus, is BÂSTOOGOBÂJIT (see the next following word), but I cannot 

 find BUSLOO or anything near it applied to that animal. The obvious suggestion 

 that the BUSLOO is a misprint in Rand's works for BUSTOO is negatived by the 

 repeated occurrence of both words in his various works; and I can only conclude that 

 BUSLOO was another name, perhaps used only in combination or as a nick-name, 



