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a spotted kind, as well as small snakes, are abundant on those islands, seeming to 

 confirm fully the Indian name. 



It is of interest to note that Rand gives another and different name for the 

 White Islands, viz., WÔBÂGUL (MINEGOOL), meaning literally THE WHITE 

 ISLANDS, {Micmac-English Dictionary, 192), which may be simply a translation of 

 the English name into Indian, or may itself be descriptive of the same feature ("derive 

 their name from cliffs of slate or highly inclined strata showing white to seaward," 

 Sailing Directions), which gave origin to the English name. 



PULOWECHACADIE. The Micmac name in simpHfied form, of the land 

 opposite the Town of Chatham, at the mouth of the Miramichi in New Brunswick, 

 according to Mr. Michael Flinne, who gave me the word as PUL-OW'-ETCH-WA- 

 GÀD'-IK, meaning THE PLACE WHERE PARTRIDGES WERE PLENTIFUL. 

 This word has every appearance of a genuine aboriginal place-name, for PULO- 

 WËCH' is the familiar Micmac name for PARTRIDGE (Rand, First Reading Book, 

 49), while the remainder includes the familiar combination -WA-KA'DI-K, earlier 

 explained (page 380), making the name in full PÛLOWËCH-WÂ-KA'DI-K, meaning 

 literally PARTRIDGE-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-PLACE. I suspect somewhat 

 the genuineness of the application of the name, however, since the partridge is so 

 abundant a bird everywhere in New Brunswick as to make its presence but little 

 of a distinguishing mark for any particular place. Mr. Flinne adds that the name 

 is supposed to have been applied by the Indians formerly to the site of Chatham 

 itself. 



QUODDY. See NEWDY QUODDY (page 408), and PASSAMAQUODDY 

 (page 410). 



SEGUNAKADEECH. The Micmac name for Rice Point, which forms the 

 western entrance to Hillsborough Bay in the southern part of Prince Edward Island. 

 It is given, as SËGÛNÂKÀDEECH, with the meaning LITTLE GROUND NUT 

 PLACE, in Rand's special list of the names of this Island, earlier mentioned (page 390). 

 The resemblance of the name to SEGUBUNACADIE, the original of SHUBENA- 

 CADIE, in conjunction with the meaning, makes the construction of the word 

 perfectly clear. The termination EECH may perhaps represent the diminutive 

 CHEECH, as Rand supposed, in which case a SEGUNAKADIK must exist not 

 very far away; but I think it more likely that we have simply another case of the 

 softened locative -K (page 377). Of course the -A-KADE- is our familiar com- 

 bination earlier explained (page 380), while SEGLIN would represent an abbreviation 

 of SEGUBUN, the Micmac word for GROUND-NUT, later given (page 423). 

 Thus the word in full would be SEGUN-A-KA'DI-CH meaning literally GROUND 

 NUT-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-PLACE, in description, I have no doubt, of the 

 former occurrence of that plant there. 



Curiously enough Rand gives also this same name, in the form SEGUNAKA- 

 DËTC for the same place, with the meaning SMALL REMNANTS {Micmac- 

 English Dictionary, 189); but this latter work was written much earlier than his 

 special list, which therefore is much more correct. 



Were not the meaning so positively given by Rand, we might think to find 

 possibly in the SEGUN the name of some animal involving the root SËGOON, 

 meaning The Spring (just as SËGOONUMEKW, the name of the Gaspereau, 

 means SPRING FISH, as Rand shows in his Micmac- English Dictionary, 148). 

 Also the root SËKWON meaning RED PAINT, or OCHRE, (op. cit. 149) could well 

 form the stem of such a word. 



SESMOGUNACADIL. The Micmac name, in simplified form, of the islands 

 in the main River Restigouche near its mouth. Father Pacifique gives me the word 

 in the form SISMÔGÔNEGATIGEL, with the meaning SUGAR PLACE. The 



