408 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



1859, evidently following some Maine authority, has NAHUMAKANTA. The 

 name is explained by Hubbard, in his excellent work, The Woods and Lakes of Maine, 

 204,asprobablycomposedof NAMES, meaning FISH, and KANTI, meaning THERE 

 ARE PLENTY, adding that NAMES to the Penobscot hunters means LAKE 

 TROUT. As to the latter part of this word, Hubbard is undoubtedly correct, this 

 being the exact equivalent of our familiar -(A)-KA'DI-(K), earlier discussed (page 

 380); but I think he errs as to the former part, which would seem more probably 

 NAM EG W, the name of the LAKE TROUT, as already discussed under Megantic 

 (page 401), thus explaining the absence of the S in NAHMAKANTA. On this basis 

 the word would be in full NAMEGW-KANTI, meaning literally LAKE TROUT- 

 (THEIR)- OCCURRENCE-(PLACE). As to the appropriateness of the name 

 to this Lake, I am told by Mrs. Eckstorm, my authority for so much of my infor- 

 mation about Maine, that the Lake Trout, locally called also Togue, occurs both 

 abundantly and of large size in Nahmakanta Lake, seeming to leave no reasonable 

 doubt as to the correctness of this interpretation. 



Two other possible explanations of the word may, however, be mentioned, if 

 only to forestall their later appearance. Thus NAHAM8 is the Abnaki name for 

 EEL (Rasle, Abnaki Dictionary 510), which fits well the form of the word above given 

 from Wilkinson's map. Also, Father Rasle shows that NAHAME was the Abnaki 

 word for the WILD TURKEY (o/).«f. 383), which formerly occurred in New England. 

 Theories upon either of these bases could easily be constructed, but the evidence 

 seems to favor very strongly the derivation from NAM EG W, the LAKE TROUT. 



NESOGWACADIE. The Micmac name for Paradise, a Village at about the 

 head of the tide on Annapolis River in western Nova Scotia. Rand makes the name 

 NESOGWAÂKÀDE, meaning PLACE OF EEL WEIRS {First Reading Book, 97), 

 while elsewhere he gives the same place as NESOGWAKADE, meaning THE 

 PLACE OF EEL-TRAPS ("a place below Lawrencetown," the latter being the next 

 settlement above Paradise on the Annapolis River; Micmac-English Dictionary, 

 117; 186). Father Pacifique in his Micmac Almanac of 1902, 23, gives the same 

 word as NISOGOEGATIG. The construction of the word is perfectly clear. Its 

 latter part evidently contains our familiar combination -WA-KA'DI-(K), earlier 

 explained (page 380), while the preceding part NESOG, meaning EEL-WEIRS, occurs 

 in many Micmac place-names, as will later be noted (compare also NESOGWA 

 "I catch eels in an eel-weir trap," in Rand, Dictionary last cited, 117). Thus the 

 word in full would be NESOG-WA-KA'DI-(K), meaning literally EEL WEIRS- 

 THEIR-OCCURRENCE-(PLACE), in description no doubt of the distinctive 

 excellence of this place, at the head of tide, for trapping eels in aboriginal times. 



NESOGWAD IE. The Micmac name of a place near Liverpool in Nova 

 Scotia (not further identified), according to Rand, who gives the word as NESOG- 

 WÂDE or NESOGWÔDE, with the meaning PLACE OF EELPOTS {Micmac- 

 English Dictionary, 117,187). In view of the form of the word and its meaning, 

 there would seem no room for doubt that it represents simply an abbreviation of the 

 preceding, though identical in every other respect. The abbreviation seems to 

 follow this plan, NES0GWA(KA)DE, thus avoiding the repetition of two some- 

 what similar sounds. 



Newdy Quoddy. 



The name of a village (on modern maps in the form West Newdy Quoddy 

 called locally West Quoddy), and formerly of the Inlet, or Harbour, beside which it 

 stands, on the southeastern coast of Nova Scotia, about midway between Halifax 

 and Canso. Contracted to Quoddy, it is applied also now to the Inlet; also to a 



