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(2). The Micmac name for Medisco Point, on the Bay Chaleur Coast of New 

 Brunswick, according to the late Michael Flinne, who sent me the word in the form 

 'M-SKËËK-GOO-WÂ-GÀD'-Ë, meaning WHERE WILD HAY GROWS. I am 

 not certain that Mr. Flinne had the locality correct, but the word itself is evidently 

 identical in every respect with the preceding. 



METABESWACADIE. The Micmac name for the Seventh Lake, that 

 called on recent maps Three-cornered Lake, at the source of Salmon River in eastern 

 Nova Scotia. It is given by Rand as 'MTÀBËSWAAKÂDE, meaning WHERE 

 MUD-CAT-FISH ABOUND {First Reading Book, 100). The Mud-cat-fish, more 

 commonly called the Hornpout, widely distributed in Nova Scotia, is 'MTABËS' 

 in Micmac, as Rand states {op. cit. 53), while the remainder of the word is obviously 

 our familiar combination -WA-KA'DI-(K), earlier described (page 380), making the 

 word in full 'MTABËS'-WÂ-KA'DI-(K), meaning literally HORNFOUT-THEIR- 

 OCCURRENCE-(PLACE). 



In response to my question whether the Hornpout is known to occur in this 

 Lake, Dr. A. C. Jost, of Guysboro, a deeply interested student of all such matters in 

 that region, tells me its presence there seems unknown to the men who are acquainted 

 with the River. But I have such confidence in the foundations of Indian place- 

 nomenclature as to predict that it will yet be found there, and in rather special 

 abundance as compared with other lakes in the vicinity. 



This name, for the Hornpout, occurs in Passamaquoddy Indian as MËDEB- 

 ÉSS'M, which gave origin to the modern MEDDYBEMPS, name of a lake in 

 eastern Maine, as Gatschet has pointed out {National Geographic Magazine, VIll, 

 1897, 22), and as I have found independently from local sources. 



A similar name occurs also in Northern Maine for Portage Lake, one of the 

 chain of large lakes on Fish River, which is called MEDESBISSOQUOT, from the 

 Hornpout, according to Indian information sent me by the late P. L. Mercure, of 

 Madawaska. The latter part of the ward, however, I do not yet understand. 



METASKUMACADIE. The Micmac name, in simplified form, of Snake 

 Brook a very small branch of the Restigouche River, above the Patapedia, as given 

 me by Father Pacifique, in the form MTESGEMOEGATIG, with the meaning 

 SNAKE PLACE. The termination -OEGATIG is the precise equivalent of our 

 -A-KA'DI-K, as earlier explained (page 377), while the first part of the name is as 

 clearly 'MTÂASKUM, meaning SNAKE, as Rand gives it {First Reading Book, 44). 

 Thus the word in full would be, on Rand's spelling, 'MTAASKOM-A-KA'DI-K, 

 meaning literally SNAKE-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-PLACE, which is presumably 

 descriptive of a feature of local natural history. The English name is probably a 

 translation of the Micmac, though possibly the reverse is true. 



MIKCHICHACADIE. The Micmac name, in simplified form, forBoisdale, 

 Cape Breton, a place on the southeast side of St. Andrews Channel, according to 

 Rand, who gives the word asMIGTCËTCWEGATIG, but without meaning {Mic- 

 mac-English Dictionary, 185). The termination very clearly represents our familiar 

 combination -WA-KA'DI-K, already explained (page 380), while the first part of 

 the word would on all analogy involve the name of some animal or plant. Its 

 identity is very perfectly settled by Chief Denys of Eskasoni, interviewed for me by 

 Rev. Father MacPherson who says that the name MIGTJITJOEGATITJG means 

 "where tortoise was getting," that is, where they used to get Tortoises. For the 

 Tortoise, Rand gives MÏKCHÏKCH {First Reading Book, 44), the TC of his former- 

 cited work answering always to the CH of the latter work. Thus the subject is 

 perfectly clear, the name in full being MÏKCHÏKCH-WA-KA'DI-K, meaning 

 literally TORTOISE-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-PLACE. 



