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small River emptying into the Inlet and a small Lake emptying into the River; also 

 to a Hill at the west entrance to the Inlet, and to off-lying Shoals. 



The earliest use I have found of the name, though it must occur very mucn earlier, 

 is in 1818, in Lockwood's Brief Description of Nova Scotia, 34, where it is NEW- 

 TONQUADDY. This is apparently the form used by the sailors, for the Sailing 

 Directions have it NEWTONQUODDY as the usual sailors' name. It is NEW- 

 COMQUODDY, in Haliburton's History of Nova Scotia, of 1829, (II, 34), which 

 perhaps is misprinted. On maps of Nova Scotia of about the middle of the last 

 century it is NEWDIQUODDY, applied to the Inlet, while the form NEWDY 

 QUODDY seems comparatively recent, curiously reversing the usual tendency of 

 place-names to condense. 



The name is derived by Rand from the Micmac NOODAAKWÔDE, meaning 

 SEALING GROUND {First Reading Book, 95), while Rand is also quoted by Daw- 

 son as giving NOODA-KWODDY, meaning PLACE OF SEALS, or, more literally, 

 PLACE OF SEAL HUNTING (Acadian Geology, 2nd edition, 3). Thus the word 

 becomes perfectly clear, for the latter part evidently consists of our familiar com- 

 bination, -A-KWA'DI-(K), already explained (page 377), while the first part is as 

 clearly the stem of NËDOOAAGWA, meaning TO HUNT SEALS (Rand, English- 

 Micmac Dictionary, 138,228). Thus the word in full would be NEDOO-A-KWA'DI- 

 (K), meaning literally SEAL HUNTS-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-(PLACE). The 

 form of the name used by the sailors, NEWTONQUADY, I take to be a familiariz- 

 ation of the Indian word, NEWTON being more familiar to English ears than 

 NEWDI. As to the appropriateness of the name to the place, I am told by the 

 Postmistress of West Quoddy that seals still come into the Harbour occasionally, 

 and are rather abundant around Harbour Island just outside; and she adds that the 

 name is known locally to mean RIVER OF SEALS. No doubt the place was origin- 

 ally one of the principal seal-hunting grounds of the Micmacs. 



Rand gives also NOODAKWÔDE or NOODAKWÂDE, meaning SEAL- 

 HAUNT, or THE SEAL-HUNTING PLACE, which is evidently identical with the 

 name just considered, as the Micmac name for Winchelsea Harbour {First Reading 

 Book, ÎU2; Micmac- English Dictionary, 187). The name Winchelsea Harbour does 

 not appear upon the modern maps and appears to be unknown locally, but upon 

 those of a half century or more ago it is used as an alternative name for Mushaboon 

 Harbour, which lies a little westward of Sheet Harbour, Newdy Quoddy lying a few 

 miles to the eastward. Thus Newdy Quoddy and Winchelsea Harbour are only 

 a few miles apart, and it is wholly out of conformity with the principles of Indian 

 nomenclature that two places so near together should have an identical Indian name. 

 It seems probable, accordingly, that Rand in some way confused the two places; and 

 this receives the strongest confirmation from the fact that Dawson, in the place 

 above cited, listing names upon Rand's authority, gives NOODA-KWOODY as the 

 Indian name for "Noodiquoddy or Winchelsea Harbour." And if yet further 

 evidence were needed it might be found in the fact that Winchelsea Harbour has 

 a quite different Indian name, viz., Mushaboon. 



PANACADIE. The Indian name for Halls Creek, which empties into the 

 Petitcodiac River at Moncton, New Brunswick, {these Transactions, II, 1896, ii, 

 239). Local writings on the history of the region mention the name, which is used 

 also on a plan of 1809 in the Crown Land Office at Fredericton. The name is known 

 locally, and pronounced Penacadie, as I have been told. 



I have no clue to its construction and meaning other than such as is offered 

 by its resemblance to Benacadie in Cape Breton, with which it is presumably identi- 

 cal. It is interesting to note, in connection with the suggestion that the latter may 

 represent a shortened form of Shubenacadie, that this Creek flows through marshes. 



