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The very interesting point in local natural history as to the former special resort 

 of Sturgeon at this place, and the reason therefor, I must leave for others to elucidate, 

 since the locality is far outside the region of my personal knowledge. It seems plain, 

 however, that the name belonged par excellence to the place in the river where the 

 Sturgeon played, but was extended, in accordance with the usual Indian custom, to 

 the contiguous point, where, as Lithgow's deposition shows, was the starting point 

 of an Indian portage trail, and presumably also a camp-ground. The extension of 

 the name to the Stream was a later white man's usage, as indeed is made perfectly 

 clear by Lithgow, who testifies to this effect, and says that the Indian name for the 

 Stream was CAW-BIS-SE-CON-TAETUCK, this termination TUCK, which thus 

 replaces the locative-GUE, i.e. -K, being a very common sufifix meaning River, as 

 will later be shown with abundant examples. 



CONCHEACAD IE. The name applied to Flat Island, the northwesternmost 

 of the Seal Island group on the south coast of Nova Scotia, on a chart in Chabert's 

 Voyage fait par Ordre du Roi, of 1753. The word, spelled precisely as above, evi- 

 dently represents its Micmac name, further evidence for which is the fact that other 

 Indian names appear on the same chart. The termination is evidently a typical 

 case of our familiar combination -A-KA'DI-(K), already explained (page 380); 

 and therefore the prefix CONCHE- must represent some prominent animal or plant 

 that occurred there, as to the identity of which, however, I am still in doubt. This 

 seems clearly to be the island on which Champlain, as recorded in his Voyages, found 

 the Tangueux, the bird which has been taken for the Great Auk (Laverdière' s edition, 

 158; these Transactions, III, 1909, ii, 239), whence his name Isle aux Tangueux 

 applied to Flat Island on his maps, a name which possibly persists, much altered in 

 our Tusket. It is not, however, certain that his Tangueu was the Great Auk, 

 because elsewhere in his works, he describes the Tangueu very elaborately in con- 

 nection with the Bird Islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and his description 

 applies without the least question to the Gannet (Laverdière, 1084). Neither the 

 Micmac name for Great Auk (ABAKTOOË, Rand, English- Mi^mac Dictionary, 26), 

 nor that for the Gannet (TËDÂGOO, or ÛKWTÀDÂGOO, op. cit. 119), can form 

 the stem of CONCH E-. There are names of several birds in which one can fancy 

 to find, in abbreviation, this root, but it is all very uncertain, and the word remains 

 as yet an attractive puzzle. 



COMKUDAMA CAD IE. The Micmac name, in simplified form, of some place 

 near Princetown Royalty in Prince Edward Island, according to Rand's special MS. 

 list of Prince Edward Island names (page 390), which gives it as COMCUDÂM- 

 WÂÀKÀDE or COMCÛDÂM-WÂÂGAKÛN, without meaning. The con- 

 struction of the word seems very clear, for the latter part, of the first of Rand's 

 forms, is clearly our familiar combination A-KA'DI-(K), already explained (page 380), 

 while the former part seems as certainly the Micmac word COMKUDÀMOO, 

 meaning STURGEON (Rand, First Reading Book, 53), the 00 merged into W. 

 Thus the word in full would be COMKÙDÀM-WA-KA'DI-(K), meaning literally 

 STURGEON-THEIR-OCCURRENCE- (PLACE). The location given by Rand 

 is far too indefinite to enable us to identify the place exactly. Princeton Royalty 

 lies on the east side of Malpeque Bay on the north side of the Island, and perhaps the 

 special prominence of the Sturgeon in some locality thereabouts will aid to place 

 the name. This is the only case that is known to me in which the Sturgeon figures 

 in the place-nomenclature of the Micmacs, which is surprising in view of the fact 

 that this fish was prominent and important throughout their territory. As to the 

 termination of Rand's second form above given, that is plain, being evidently the 

 frequent root GAKUN or GOKUN or GOGUN, meaning a fishing place, as will be 

 shown later in this series. 



