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having been made by Gesner's exuberant imagination acting upon liis personal 

 knowledge of the really uncanny impression given by the deep rough gorge. Again, 

 the late Samuel W. Kain, in a list of New Brunswick Place names published in the 

 Saint John Sun, Jan. 14, 1886, gave the meaning as PLACE WHERE WATER 

 RUSHES THROUGH A DEEP GORGE, which is very nearly correct, more nearly 

 so than my own incomplete NARROAV PLACE or GORGE, given earlier in these 

 Transactions, II, 1896, ii, 263. 



Summary. — The name POKIOK is certainly of Maliscet Indian origin, a cor- 

 ruption of PÔK-WEE'-ÔK, which involves the roots PÔK-WË'Ô-K meaning literally, 

 NARROWS-RUNS OUT-PLACE, or THE RIVER THAT RUNS OUT THROUGH 

 NARROWS. 



B. Little Pokiok Brook, below Hartland. 



This little brook flows into the Saint John River from the east some ten miles 

 above Woodstock and two below Hartland. It enters the Saint John valley through a 

 fine little vertical-walled gorge containing a considerable waterfall. Both gorge 

 and fall can be seen by an alert observer from the railway train which passes just 

 in front of them. 



Although the place is locally well-known, the name does not appear upon any 

 map, so far as I can find, prior to the Roe and Colby Map of Carleton County, of 

 1876, where it reads POKENOCK CREEK, evidently a misprint for POKEHOCK. 

 It is on Loggie's map of the Province of 1885 as POKIOK CR., while the present 

 form of the name appears first on the Geological Survey map of 1886. 



The presence of the tjqjical little gorge at its mouth in conjunction with the 

 exact identity of name, makes it certain that the word is identical in origin and 

 meaning with the Pokiok just considered. 



C. Pokiok Brook, an upper branch of the Becaguimec River. 



This tiny brook, even smaller than the preceding, flows into the Becaguimec (itself 

 a branch of the Saint John entering at Hartland) from the east. At its mouth is a fine 

 little waterfall and gorge, inferior however to that on Little Pokiok Brook just con- 

 sidered. The name first appears, so far as I can find, on the Geological Survey map, 

 published in 1886. The word is evidently identical in every particular with the fore- 

 going. 



D. Pokiok Brook, a branch of the Lower Tobique. 



This small stream empties into the Tobique River (itself one of the principal 

 branches of the Saint John) from the northward, about six miles from its mouth. 

 As it enters the Tobique valley, it falls in many broken pitches through a rocky 

 gorge-like channel. 



The name appears first, with the present spelling, on the original survey map 

 of the Tobique by Maclaughlan of 1830, applied, however, not to the stream but 

 to the island at its mouth. On New Brunswick rivers, the islands are frequently 

 named for the streams near whose mouths they lie, and I take it the name was omitted 

 from the stream by oversight on Maclaughlan's map. It is applied to the stream 

 in the form POIKIOK, on Saunders' map of New Bruns\A'ick of 1842. as POKIOK 

 on Periey's map of 1852, as POQUIOQUE on Wilkinson's map of 1859 (this forpi 

 being deliberately adopted by Wilkinson, I presume, to differentiate it from the 

 larger Pokiok on the Saint John), as POKIOK on Loggie's map of 1885, and in this 

 form on others since then. 



Thus, the history of the word, in conjunction with the characteristics of the 

 place, seem to identify it completely with those that precede. 



