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River. Accordingly we turn, for further suggestion, to the alternative form of the 
name, viz., KISSEBEQUICK; and at once a resemblance becomes manifest between 
this word and KIJEBOOGWEK, or KIKCHEBOOGWEK, or KIKTCEBOOGWEK 
the Miemac name for Cavendish and Bay View in Prince Edward Island, the 
word discussed at the foot of this page. This word means FLOWING ALONG 
CLOSE UP, from the root KIKTC, meaning CLOSE, and BOOGWEK, meaning 
TIDEWAY. And in these words are involved a striking characteristic of this 
river, and one unusual on this coast, viz., the stream after flowing straight toward 
the sea, as it nears the sand beach of the coast turns abruptly at right angles to 
its course and flows for a half mile and more parallel with the shore just inside 
the great beach, before it turns through a gully into the sea. In this peculiarity, 
accordingly, I have no question, is contained the explanation of the name, which 
is in reality KIJEBOOGWEK, or KIKTC-(E)-BOOGWEK, that is the CLOSE 
ALONGSIDE TIDEWAY (RIVER), or RIVER WITH A TIDEWAY CLOSE 
ALONG SHORE. The very near resemblance of this word to Kouchibouguac 
made its familiarization into the latter, and much better-known, form very 
natural, especially to Watson, the Surveyor, to whom the other Kouchibouguac 
was already familiar from his surveys there. And if it ever becomes desirable 
to differentiate this name in spelling, to prevent confusion with the other 
Kouchibouguac, a very good form would be Kitchibouguac. 
It is, by the way, possible, that aboriginally the name applied not to the present 
river flowing inland, but to the salt water stream that flows through pleasant marshes 
inside the beach from near Tedish, and which affords a most useful and pleasant 
canoe route, as I know from experience, along this part of the coast. 
Another fact about this name needs emphasis at this place. I formerly thought, 
as stated in these Transactions, II, 1896, ii, 244, that this name is identical with the 
KIGISKOUABOUGUET of the grant of the Seigniory of Chignecto in 1676; but 
this I have since found to be wrong, for the latter word is obviously identical with the 
Indian name of River Philip, Nova Scotia (op. cit. V, 1899, ii, 315, and under KESOO- 
SKIBOOGW EK below). The KIMONGOUITCHE of the same grant, by the way, 
was no doubt, a misprint for SIMOUGOUITCHE, that is LITTLE SIMOUGOUIT, 
now called Little Shemogue. 
Another place-name in New Brunswick which probably involves the same root 
KIKTC, meaning CLOSE in the same sense, is that now called QUISIBIS, a branch 
of the upper Saint John; for it has this same peculiarity, in that its lower course 
runs parallel for a mile or more with the main river. As this word is Maliseet, its 
root would differ somewhat in form from the Micmac. 
Other Aboriginal Acadian Place Names Containing Roots Identical With 
Those in Kouchibouguac. 
KIKCHEBOOGWEK, the Micmac name of Cavendish River, Prince Edward 
Island, according to Rand, (Reader, 85), and meaning FLOWING ALONG CLOSE 
UP. Cavendish River appears to be a branch of, if not identical with New London 
Bay, and in his Micmac-English Dictionary 183, Rand gives New London Bay as 
KIKTCEBOOGWEK-BOOKTABA, meaning GREAT BAY OF NETS (ENCLO 
SURES), though on page 76 of the same work he gives for the same bay KIJE- 
BOOGWEK KOOKTABA (obvious misprint for BOOKTABA), meaning GREAT 
BAY OF SHOALS. Furthermore, Bay View is also on the shore of New London 
Bay, and for Bay View Rand gives KIJEBOOGWEK (op. cit., 76 and 183), or 
