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ingly we would expect to find that the prefix BUN, BEN, PUN, PAN, would represent 

 the name of some such object, evidently in abbreviated form, since it does not occur 

 as such in the Dictionaries. In this connection one thinks at once of the important 

 name SHUBENACADIE later considered (page 422) the omission of the first syllable 

 of which would give our name BENACADIE. We have indeed an abbreviation 

 of SHUBENACADIE, by a different omission, in SEGUNAKADEECH, also, 

 later considered (page 421). Considering these facts, in conjunction with the wide 

 distribution and large economic importance of the Ground-nut or Indian Potato 

 which SEGUBUN describes, it would seem extremely probable that in BENACADIE 

 we have an abbreviation of SHUBENACADIE, that is SEGUBUN-A-KA'DI-(K), 

 with the same meaning of GROUND NUTS-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-(PLACE). 

 But certainty in the matter must await local study of the records and natural history. 



Or possibly the root BEN may represent an abbreviation of MULEBUN, given 

 by Rand as another ground nut, related to SEGUBUN, though its identity is not 

 clear from his brief characterization {Micmac-English Dictionary, 103). 



The Micmacs of Cape Breton, interviewed for me by Father MacPherson, 

 recognize the word as theirs, but cannot give its meaning. Chief Denys, however, 

 says that while BENEGA'TI is their name for Benacadie, they apply also the name 

 BENAGATEES to Pipers Cove, a place a little to the westward. 



BOOKSETA CAD IE. The Micmac name, in simplified form, of an Island near 

 Sydney in Cape Breton, given by Rand in the form BOOKSETOWAKADE, meaning 

 THE PLACE OF COAL {Micmac-English Dictionary, 180). The construction of 

 the name is clear, for the latter part is clearly our familiar combination -A-KA'-DI- 

 (K) already explained (page 380), while the former part is as evidently the Micmac 

 word BOOKSËTOW, one of two common words meaning COAL (Rand, English- 

 Micmac Dictionary, 61). Thus the word in full would be BOOKSËTOW-Â-KA'DI- 

 (K), meaning literally COAL-ITS-OCCURRENCE- (PLACE), which no doubt is 

 exactly descriptive. With this word may be compared the KULUMVECH- 

 WOPSKWACADIE of page 432. As to the identity of this island, I have no know- 

 ledge, for the best maps ancf charts mark no island near Sydney on which coal can 

 occur. Seemingly Rand has some error of detail. 



CHACODI. A former name for Barnaby River, a branch, on the south side, of 

 the lower Miramichi River in New Brunswick. It first appeared in 1685 on the 

 important map of Jumeau as CHICODI (Photographic copy in the Champlain 

 Society's edition of Father le Clercq's New Relation of Gaspesia, 10), which was 

 adopted on the great Franquelin-deMeulles map of 1686 as CHICODY {these 

 Transactions, III, 1897, ii, 364). It appears as CHACODI in 1744, on Bellin's very 

 influential Carte de la Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle- France, and from that map was 

 copied upon a great number, both French and English, sometimes in the form 

 CHACODY. On the maps of that period the River to which it was applied became 

 gradually enlarged and moved westward to fill a large space that would otherwise 

 have been blank, thus causing some confusion with the Main Southwest Miramichi, 

 while later, as a consequence of some confusion connected with similarity in the 

 Indian names of the Miramichi and Restigouche, it became removed, on some maps, 

 to the Restigouche itself of which it appears as a branch {these Transactions, III, 

 1897, ii 372; this feature is also on Rhode's Theatrum Belli in America septentrionale; 

 belonging much before 1800). 



The name, pleasing and simple of pronunciation in its form Chacodi or Chacody 

 (best pronounced with the accent on the first syllable and all the vowels short), could 

 well be revived for some place connected with this river. It is clearly Indian in 

 origin. Thus I have myself obtained it from Tom Barnaby, a prominent Micmac, 

 for one of whose ancestors its English name was given, as SEE-QUÀ-DIK' (as in my 



