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Hence we may summarize the entire matter thus, — that MIRA is a contraction 

 and corruption through the French from the Micmac MOOLACADIE, which is a 

 condensation of the roots PtJLÂMOO-Â-KA'DI-(K), meaning Hterally SALMON- 

 THEIR-OCCURRENCE-(PLACE), or more generally THE PLACE WHERE 

 SALMON OCCUR, a distinctively descriptive name for Salmon River, an affluent 

 of Mira Lake, the name being extended from Salmon River to the sea by the French. 



A very different origin has been assigned to the name MIRA by Bourinot, who 

 derives it from that of a French officer named Miré (these Transactions, V, 1899, 

 ii, 3-4). No evidence for his existence is cited, and I think he is an invention of 

 tradition to explain the name. It is quite unlikely that any such person was associ- 

 ated with this place prior to the year 1685, when the name appears in its present 

 form upon the Jumeau map above cited. 



MOG ULAWESA CAD IE. The Micmac name, in simplified form, of the large 

 Island now called Portage Island, at the mouth of the Miramichi River in eastern 

 New Brunswick. It was given me by the late Michael Flinne, teacher of the Indian 

 school at Eelground, as MO-KÙL-LÂ-WEEJ-WÂ-GA'-DIK, meaning THE PLACE 

 WHERE THEY SHOOT BRANT; while Charles Bernard, Micmac teacher of the 

 Micmac school at Burnt Church, gave me MOGÙLÂWEECHOOACADIE, with the 

 meaning, — "a place where the Brant Geese are plenty and they are generally shot 

 as it were." Rand gives the word MOGOLAWEECH as meaning the BRANT 

 GOOSE {First Reading Book, 48), and Portage Island is a famous hunting ground 

 for that fine waterfowl, always important to the Indians. Accordingly, I believe 

 the construction of the word is perfectly clear; MOGOLAWEECH means BRANT, 

 while the remainder of the word is our familiar combination -WA-KA'DI-K, earlier 

 explained (page 380), thus making the word in full MOGOLAWEECH-WA-KA'DI-K, 

 meaning literally BRANT-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-PLACE, in distinctive des- 

 cription of the locality. 



Mr. Flinne thus gave me the full form of the name. I have myself been given 

 by Micmac Indians, with the same meaning, the form MOL-A-WES-WAY-A-DIC 

 (in the exact form of my notes), which is obviously simply a condensed form, with 

 a usual omission of the G sounds, of the full word. 



MOGLACADIE. The Micmac name for the Big Bras d'Or Lake in Cape 

 Breton, according to Rand, who gives it as MOGLAKADIK, meaning PLACE OF 

 BRANT {Micmac- English Dictionary, 185). The word seems very clearly a conden- 

 sation of the MOGLJLAWEECH-WA-KA'DI-K given above, and in every way 

 etymologically identical therewith. Presumably it is accurately descriptive, since 

 the Brant is a prominent and important game bird in all that region. 



Rand, however, gives also another and quite different word for Bras d'Or Lake, 

 viz., PETOOBÔK {English- Micmac Dictionary, 42; First Reading Book, 83), and 

 it is wholly improbable that the Micmacs had two different names for the same 

 place. That the name PETOOBÔK belonged really to the Big Bras d'Or, and not to 

 the Little Bras d'Or, is shown conclusively by Bellin's map of the Island in Father 

 Charlevoix's Histoire of 1744, which has the legend "appelle par les Sauvages 

 BIDEAUBOCH" on the Big Lake. The same map, however, appears to solve our 

 problem, for it applies the name PAGUELOUACADI, which with the replacement, 

 quite usual, of the P by M, would be MAGUELOUACADI, and therefore quite 

 clearly our word, to West Baj'; and this usage is no doubt correct. Rand, by the 

 way, gives another name for West Bay, viz., WÔLNÀMKEÂK' {First Reading 

 Book, 103), meaning SANDY COVE; but as this word is always applied to a real 

 cove and not a great inlet like West Bay I have no doubt that Rand's WÔLNÀM- 

 KEÂK belongs to some particular cove in West Bay, and that MOGLACADIE is 

 the real Micmac name of West Bay. 



