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roots -A-KA'DI-(K), already fully explained (page 380), while WÔBE is the Micmac 

 name for the SWAN {op. cit. 50). Thus the name in full would be WÔBE-A- 

 KA'DI-(K), meaning literally SWAN-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-(PLACE). As to 

 the appropriateness of the name, all of my local inquiry has failed to yield any hint. 

 The swan has long been extinct in Nova Scotia, though it formerly occurred there, 

 and presumably this lake was one of their special resorts. 



In another place Rand himself gives a different meaning to the name viz., THE 

 WHITE PLACE {Micmac-English Dictionary, 173), but this leaves wholly unex- 

 plained the termination of the word, and I have no doubt that his First Reading 

 Book, in reality though not chronologically the later work, is more correct. Possibly 

 the WÔBE- may represent the abbreviated name of some bird or other natural 

 object other than the SWAN. 



WOB I MSKWACAD IE. The Micmac name, in simplified form, of the region 

 about the head of Lefurgeys Brook and Glenlivet, on the south, or New Brunswick, 

 side of the Restigouche River ten miles above Campbellton. Rand gives for Glenivit 

 the Micmac name WÔBÛMÏMSKWAGADÏCH with the meaning WHERE THEY 

 GATHER WHITE CRANBERRIES, adding that it may also mean WHERE 

 THEY KILL WHITE PORPOISES {First Reading Book, 88; English- Micmac 

 Dictionary, 121). Again, he gives WÔBIMSKWÂGA'DICH as the Micmac name 

 for Lafroys or Labrays Brook, with the meaning WHERE THEY GATHER WHITE 

 CRANBERRIES, {English- Micmac Dictionary, 153, First Reading Book, 91). Neither 

 Glenivit nor Lafroys (or Labrays) Brook appear on any maps or in any other records, 

 and I was long in discovering their identity. The coincidence of Indian names led 

 to the supposition that Glenivit and Lafroys Brook were the same place, or at least 

 contiguous, and at length suggested that probably Rand referred really to Glenlivit, 

 a Scotch-French settlement on the lower Restigouche, with Lefurgeys Brook, a small 

 stream which heads near Glenlivit and flows into the Restigouche a mile above 

 Christopher Brook. With this in mind, I wrote to Mrs. W. D. Duncan whose know- 

 ledge of these matters I have earlier had occasion to mention (page 426), and asked 

 her whether there was any association of these places with white cranberries and 

 Indians. She replied as follows: — "Up Christopher Brook, which runs through 

 Glenlivet [and is very close to Lefurgeys Brook], there used to grow great quantities 

 of high bush cranberries. Before the frost colors them red, they are of a light yellow 

 colour, not white but they might be called white by the Indians. I know tTie squaws 

 had a bad habit of picking them in that unripe condition and selling them to the 

 housewives." The evidence, accordingly, is all perfectly consistent, and points 

 clearly to the application of this Indian name to the place where the Indians formerly 

 gathered the High Bush Cranberries on the upper courses of Christopher and Lefur- 

 geys Brooks near Glenlivet. It is known, by the way, that they gathered other 

 berries also in the green or half ripe condition, of course for convenience in preserving 

 them for winter. As to the Micmac name that seems clear, for the latter part is 

 clearly our familiar combination -A-KA'DI- with the softened form of the locative, 

 i.e., CH instead of -K, as earlier explained (page 377). As to the former part of the 

 word, that evidently involves WOBÂE, meaning WHITE (Rand, Dictionary cited, 

 280), with a great condensation of NÏBÛMANÔKSE, meaning BUSH- CRAN- 

 BERRY TREE (Rand, First_ Reading Book, 69). Thus the word in full would be 

 WOBAE-NÏBÛMANÔKSE-A-KA'DI-CH, meaning literally WHITE-BUSH 

 CRANBERRY TREES-THEIR-OCCURRENCE-PLACE, in description of the 

 place above mentioned. I think there is no doubt as to the essential correctness of 

 this interpretation. 



WOSOGWESOQUODDY. The Micmac name for Petite, a place in Hants 

 County, Nova Scotia, according to Rand, who gives it, without meaning, in the 



