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includinfï this root POK or POOK nieaiiing NARROW, with some that probably 

 include it, are the following: — 



BOCABEC, discussed separately below. 



PUKSEGIAK, a place in Eastern Maine which I have not yet been able to 

 identify, cited to me by the late A. S. Gatschet, in a letter in 1898, as PUKSEG-IAK» 

 meaning NARROW LEDGE OF ROCKS-RUN, "for a river or brook runs through 

 that ledge." The roots PUK and LVK, i.e., WEE-OK are evidently identical 

 with those in Pokiok. It is possible that the root SEG is equivalent to 

 the Micmac SAK meaning LEDGE, though it is also possible that it is the root SAG 

 meaning OUTLET, as in the SANG HE DÉ" PEG 8 É of Rasle {Abnaki Dictionary, 

 523), the original of Sagadahoc. But there is evidently no doubt as to the identity 

 of PUK with our POK. 



POGSEGIASS. The Indian name of the branch of the Magaguadavic River 

 now called Cox's Brook, as used in the authoritative records of the original survey 

 of that river {Collections of the New Brunswick Historical Society, III, 1909, 184). 

 A plan of 1832 in the Crown Land office, by a Surveyor named Smith, has "POK- 

 SEGIAS, commonly called Cox's Brook." The word is evidently identical with 

 the preceding except that it is in the diminutive form, the SS an abbreviation of 

 SIS, meaning LITTLE, replacing the K. But I have no information as yet as to 

 its applicability to the place, nor why it has the diminutive form. 



POKESK. The aboriginal Maliseet name of the narrow part of the thorough- 

 fare between Grand and Maquapit Lakes in central New Brunswick, formerly an 

 important fishing ground with a village site close by, as described in the Bulletin 

 of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick No. VI, 1887, 6. This name is 

 given also by Edward Jack for this place {Journal of American Folk Lore, VIII, 

 1895, 205). The root POK signifying NARROWS as in Pokiok (page 3) is per- 

 fectly plain; the S I take for an abbreviation of SIS, the dimunitive wdth a separative 

 E between it and the preceding syllable; while K is of course the locative. The 

 word in full would be POK-(E)-SIS-K that is LITTLE NARROWS PLACE or 

 THE LITTLE NARROWS. This locality while in one sense a "Narrows" is not 

 of the typical sort, having low intervale banks ; and it shows the flexibility of the 

 root POK in Indian just as NARROWS is flexible in English. The typical usage 

 has already been discussed under Pokiok (page 3). 



POKESHAW. The name of a small river in northeastern New Brunswick 

 emptying into Bay Chaleur through cliffs between Caraquet and Bathurst. Rand 

 derives it from POOKSAAK, meaning A LONG NARROW STONE {Reader, 97), 

 and the word evidently describes the narrow gash in the cliffs through which the 

 river enters the Bay ; but I am not yet satisfied as to the details of the latter root, 

 and reserve the word for further stvidj\ I think it probable the SvVAK is really a 

 root meaning OUTLET. But there is no question as to the first part of the name, 

 which is the Micmac POOK, exact equivalent of the Maliseet POK, meaning NAR- 

 ROWS. 



BOOKSAAK. The Micmac name of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 

 given by Rand {Reader, 86) as BOOKSAAK, meaning A NARROW ENTRANCE 

 BETWEEN STEEP ROCKS. It is apparently identical with the preceding, but I 

 wish to give it likewise further study. 



POOGESEBEII K, the aboriginal Micmac name for Kenedy's Island, some place 

 in Nova Scotia which I have not been able as yet to identify; given as POOGESE- 

 BEIÏK by Rand {Reader, 90) and meaning A NARROW PASSAGE or CHANNEL. 

 The roots are perfectly clear; the POOG is the POOK, equivalent of Maliseet 

 POK, meaning NARROWS as discussed above (page 3), in conjunction with 



