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Connected in some way with this name are perhaps the SOOLAKADE and 

 SOOLEAWAGITK mentioned on page 426, 



ULNOOACADIE. ULNOOAKADIE or ELNOOAKADË, meaning A MIC- 

 MIC SETTLEMENT (Rand, Micmac-English Dictionary, 47), a combination of 

 ULNOO or ELNOO, meaning A NATIVE INDIAN or MICMAC {op. cit.) with 

 -A-KA'DI, meaning THEIR-OCCURRENCE (page 380). 



UTKUDAKUNACADIE. OOTKOODÂKÛNA'KÀDE, meaning A GRAVE 

 YARD (Rand, op. cit. 124), a combination of OOTKOODÂKÛN, meaning A GRAVE 

 {op. cit.) with -A-KA'DI, meaning THEIR-OCCURRENCE (page 380). 



WENJEGWOMACADIE. WËNJEGWOmAKÀDE, meaning A "WHITE" 

 VILLAGE (Rand, English- Micmac Dictionary, 275,) a combination of WËNJOO, 

 meaning FRENCH {op. cit. 117), WIGWÔM, meaning HOUSE {op. cit. 134), with 

 A-KA'DI, meani_ng THEIR -OCCURRENCE (page 380). Compare also Gesner's 

 form WENJOUAKÀDE, later, on page 439. 



WENJUSUNACADIE. WÉNJOOSOONÂKÀDE, meaning an ORCHARD 

 (Rand, op._cit. 186), a combination of WENJOOSOON', meaning APPLE {op. cit. 

 18) with -A-KA'DI, meaning OCCURRENCE-PLACE (page 380). 



WIKPEACADIE. WIKPEA'KADE, meaning AN ELM GROVE ^Rand, 

 op. cit. 97), a combination of WIKPE, meaning ELM TREE {op. cit.), with -A-KA'- 

 DI, meaning THEIR-OCCURRENCE, (page 380). 



WISOSULEACADIE. WISOWSOOLEAWA'KADE, me_aning MINE OF 

 GOLD (Rand, op. cit. 1_70), a combination of WISOWSOOLEAWA' {op. cit. 122) 

 meaning GOLD, with -A-KA'DI, meaning ITS-OCCURRENCE (page 380). 



In addition there are three topographical terms (and probably many more) 

 which have become fixed as place-names, as mentioned in the appropriate places in 

 the foregoing pages, viz., APCHECKUMOOCHWACADIE, KOONDAWACADIE, 

 and MESKEGUACADIE. 



D. Certain aboriginal place-names commonly hut erroneously supposed 

 ^ to involve the suffix root -A CAD IE, -KONTE. 



Damariscotta. 



The name of a River, actually an elongated tidal Inlet, on the coast of Maine 

 east of Kennebec. 



The word is commonly believed to be Indian, a view which apparently originated 

 in 1798 when Rev. Paul Coffin was given by Sebattis, "as sensible and mild an Indian, 

 as is to be found" among Indian interpretations, "Madamascontee, now Damaris- 

 cotta, many little alewives" {Collections oj the Maine Historical Society, IV, 1856, 379). 

 This was of course the basis of Ballard's explanation in his paper elsewhere cited 

 (page 399), where he makes MATAMASCONTEE identical with MATAMIS- 

 CONTIS, a branch of the Penobscot, and derives the word from MAH- 

 DAMAS, meaning ALEWIVE, and KONTEE meaning PLENTY, thus bringing 

 the word into the series of-ACADIE -KONTE names to which this paper is devoted. 

 A very similar interpretation was given, evidently quite independently, by Nicolar, 

 the Penobscot Indian, in his book. The Life and Traditions of the Red Man, 146, 

 where he makes this name identical with MAR-DAR-MES-KUN-TEAG, meaning 

 YOUNG SHAD POOL. And the same idea underlies the meanings FISH PLACE, 

 and RIVER OF LITTLE FISHES, and RIVER WHERE THE FISHES FLOCK 

 OR RUSH, cited without authority by Douglas-Lithgow in his Dictionary earlier 

 cited (page 407). The word is made Indian also, but with a very different meaning, 

 by Father Maurault in his Histoire des A benakis, vi, where it is derived from PAM AP- 



