Section II., 1913. [81] Trans. R.S.C. 



An Organization of the Scientific Investigation of the Indian Place- 

 nomenclature of the Maritime Provinces of Canada. 



(Third Paper). 



By W. F. Ganong, M.A., Ph.D. 



(Read by Title, May 28, 1913) 



This paper is identical in aim and method with its predecessors 

 which were published in the two preceding volumes of these Transac- 

 tions. In brief, I aim to apply the principles of exact scientific analysis 

 to a subject which is at one and the same time unusually interesting 

 and remarkably encumbered with doubt and error. This comparative 

 method, of which the details were explained in the introduction to the 

 first paper, is elucidating remarkably the problems of the subject, as 

 the present contribution will further illustrate. 



For convenience of reference I may add that the former papers 

 thus treated the names Oromocto, Magaguadavic, Upsalquitch, Manan, 

 Nepisiguit, Kouchibouguac, Anagance and Wagan, with a good many 

 related words mvolving the same roots. In the present paper I have 

 carried out still more fully the discussion of the different names having 

 identical roots, thus giving prominence to the extinct names, which 

 can be restored to great advantage for literary or other purposes. For 

 this purpose, however, they must, for the most part, be shortened, 

 softened, and familiarized; and such simplified forms I have tried to 

 give where it seemed desirable. 



It only remains to add that in the matter of pronunciation, I 

 have myself made use only of the ordinary English sounds of the 

 letters, adopting this system in order to make the words more widely 

 understood. Rand in his Reader and two Dictionaries uses exactly the 

 same sounds and signs which are employed in English Dictionaries for 

 explaining the pronunciation, excepting that in his Micmac-English 

 Dictionary his editor uses the letters tc to express the soft sound of ch 

 (as in church). Gatschet and M. Chamberlain both use the standard 

 alphabet of philologists, in which the vowels are sounded for the most part 

 in the continental manner. All of the citations from Father Rasle are to 

 be read as French. 



