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first GOES OUT as against his second FLOWS, or OOZES FROM. But the matter 

 must have further study. 



It is also possible, or probable, that the following words contain this root 

 WËÔ-K of Pokiok, with the same significance of RUNS OUT, or EMPTIES, viz, 

 A BES SA WE OK, the Micmac name of a branch of Tracadie River, New Brunswick, 

 heading up near Teagues Brook, as given me by a Micmac: OGUMKEGEOK, the 

 Micmac name for Liverpool River, Nova Scotia (Rand, Micmac-English Dictionanj, 

 187) also written OGOMKIGEAK' {Reader, 91) : MÊDABÊGEAK', the original of 

 Metapedia (Rand, Reader, 93), with the equivalent originals of Cascapedia and 

 Patapedia: NËMTAKAYK', the original of NEMTAGE (Rand, Reader, 95): 

 MAHALAWODIAC, the aboriginal Micmac name of the Little Buctouche {these 

 Transactions, II, 1896, ii, 249) : and very Ukely SCOODIAC, the aboriginal name 

 of the River Saint Croix, between Maine and New Brunswick, which is probably 

 of Micmac origin, like the other principal names of this region (page 10 following) 

 and not Maliseet or Penobscot as has commonly been assumed in the attempts 

 at explanation of the word. 



Bocabec. 



Location and Application. — The name of a small River in southwestern 

 New Brunswick, flowing southward into Passamaquoddy Bay; extended also to 

 a Lake and a Harbour both lying to the westward, and to the small settlement at 

 the mouth of the River. It is pronounced locally BOC'-A-BEC, the BOC as in 

 ROCK, and accented, the A as in CAB and the BEC as in BECK. 



History of the Word. — The earliest known use of the name occurs in a journal 

 of an early settler, James Boyd, of 1763, in the form BOQUAKECK, which is 

 obviously misprinted for BOQUABECK, and has possibly experienced editorial 

 alteration (Kilby, Eastport and Passamaquoddij , 107). But it appears certainly 

 as BOOKWEBWEEK, applied to the river, in Mitchel's Field Book of the survey 

 of this region in 1764 {Collections of the New Brunswick Historical Society, II, 1904, 

 184), and on a map derived therefrom {these Transactions, VII, 1901, 229). It 

 then occurs as BOCQUOBECT in Lieutenant Owen's Journal of his voyages around 

 Passamaquoddy in 1770 {Collections above cited, II, 1899, 20) ; and on the remark- 

 ably fine survey map of Passamaquoddy, made for Des Barres Atlantic Neptune 

 in 1772 by Thomas Wright it appears as BOCQUABECK (Ms still unpublished in 

 the British Museum). A plan by Morris, of 1784, has BUCKIBACK (Ms. in the 

 British Museum), and this is followed by Sproule's map of 1786 {these Transactions, 

 VII, 1901, ii, 412), though in his map of 1798, Sproule adopted BOCKOBACK 

 {op. cit. VII, 1901, ii, 254). The fine map of New Brunswick by Lockwood of 1826 

 has BUK A BUK, that of Saunders of 1842 has BUCOBE (with the obvious 

 accidental omission of a terminal C) ; while Wilkinson's great map of 1859 has 

 BOCOBEC. The Geological Survey map of 1880 introduced BOCABEC, which 

 was followed by Loggie's map of 1885, and the influence of these two maps in con- 

 junction with the clearness with which this spelling reflects the local pronounciation 

 should make BOCABEC the standard, as it is the local, spelling of the name. 



Analysis of the Word. — The Indians now, or formerly, living at Passama- 

 quoddy recognize the word as belonging to their language, and give its form as 

 PO-IvA-BESK', and BO-K\-BEKSQU, as I have obtained it from them in the 

 forms of my notes, or BOC-E-BEC-SEQU, as it has been given me by Mrs. Wallace 

 Brown of Calais, who knows them well. As to its meaning an Indian gave me 

 NARROW AND LONG TIDE RUNNING UP, or, as Mrs. Brown obtained it, A 

 SMALL STREAM OPENING OUT LARGER. In both explanations, it will be 



