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TESOQUODDY. The Micmac name for Pirates Cove, on the west side of the 

 Gut of Canso in eastern Nova Scotia, according to Rand, who gives the word as 

 TËSOGWÔDE, meaning PLACE OF FLAKES {First Reading Book, 96), though 

 elsewhere he gives the meaning PLACE WHERE GOODS WERE SORTED 

 {Micmac-English Dictionary, 156). The latter part of the word seems clearly a 

 form of our familiar roots -À-KA'DI-(K), already fully explained (page 380), but the 

 former part is not so clear. FLAKES are of course the stages on which the fisher- 

 men dry their fish, but I cannot find the root TES in any word for flakes or stages in 

 Rand's Dictionaries, although in his Legends of the Micmacs, 248, he uses the word 

 TESOKTAGUNS as meaning the cribs on which dried meat was packed to keep 

 it from the weather and the moisture of the ground. As to Rand's second meaning, 

 it sounds a little like an echo of the English name of the place, and I have not been 

 able to find any satisfactory basis for the meaning in the roots of the name. It is of 

 course possible that the place was one where the Indians had stages for drying some 

 particular kind of meat they took there, or it may refer to an important resort of the 

 early codfishermen with their permanent flakes, in which case the name would be 

 not aboriginal but recent. But it would seem more in conformity with the form and 

 usage of -QUODDY names (page 379), that the TESO- would represent an abbrevia- 

 tion of the name of some animal there prominent, though I have not been able to 

 identify it, and the matter must have further investigation. 



TOQUADIK. The Micmac name for the southeast Branch of the Upsal- 

 quitch River in northern New Brunswick, as given me by a Micmac chief, in the 

 form TO-QUA'-DIK {these Transactions, II, 1896, ii, 277). The latter part of the 

 word is clearly our familiar combination -KA'DI-K, meaning OCCURRENCE- 

 PLACE, as already explained (page 380) ; but the first part, the TO, I cannot interpret, 

 although all analogy would indicate that it represents the greatly abbreviated name 

 of some animal or plant that is prominent on that stream. 



Father Pacifique, however, has suggested another origin, viz., TOGOATIG 

 or TOOKWADIK, with the meaning DOUBLE or GO TOGETHER. A root 

 TOGWOKAAD does occur in words meaning DOUBLE as given by Rand 

 {English- Micmac Dictionary, 90), but the resemblance here does not seem to me to 

 amount to identity, nor is any appropriateness evident in the meaning. Accordingly 

 I think this interpretation less probable than the one above given. 



TUMAKUNACADIE. The Micmac name for Morrisons (?) Island, ap- 

 parently some place near Pictou, Nova Scotia, according to Patterson, who, in his 

 History of the County of Pictou, 32, gives it as TUMAKUNAWAAKADE, with the 

 meaning PIPE STONE PLACE. The construction of the word is clear, for the 

 latter part is evidently our familiar combination -WÀ-KA'DI-(K), earlier explained 

 (page 380), while the former part would seem to be the Micmac TÛMÂKÛN, meaning 

 PIPE (Rand, English- Micmac Dictionary, 196), which word, as the Indian pipes 

 were usually of stone, would be in this case equivalent to PIPESTONE. Thus the 

 entire word would be TtJMÂKÛN-WA-KA'DI-(K), meaning literally PIPE- 

 (STONE)-ITS-OCCURRENCE-(PLACE), presumably in accurate description of 

 a feature of the place, as to which, however, I have no further information. 



This root TÛMÂKÛN is present in the form TOMOGONOPS, meaning PIPE- 

 STONE, the name of a River in New Brunswick, a branch of the Northwest Mira- 

 michi, later to be considered (also these Transactions, II, 1896, ii, 276). 



There is, however, another possibility as to this word, viz., that it is really 

 TUMAGUNAWAAKADE, meaning HAUNT OF THE SHELL DUCK. This 

 bird, which is that commonly called Shelldrake or Meganser, very common in these 

 Provinces, is called in Micmac TÛMAAGÛNE (Rand, First Reading Book, 49), 

 which, with the familiar termination WA-KA'DI-(K), would give our word very 



