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the I is merely separative for ease of pronounciation between the roots. BOOGWEK, 
of course means TIDEWAY, as explained above (page 180). The word would 
therefore be AMAS-I-BOOGWEK, meaning LONG TIDEWAY RIVER. But 1 
have not been able to determine the reason for the application of this name to these 
two places. AMAS appears to mean LONG in the sense of FAR or DISTANT, 
thus being differentiated from PIJ, meaning LONG in the ordinary sense, as noted 
earlier (page 179); and one might suppose that AMAS was used in description of a 
long straight stretch, or reach. But this explanation appears negatived by the 
fact that the tideways of both Grand River and McKinnons Harbour are only about 
four miles long and curved. 
MOOLABOOGWEK, the Micmac name for COUNTRY Harbour. Country 
Harbour Nova Scotia, is given by Rand as MOOLABOOGWEK’ , meaning DEEPLY 
GULLIED OUT (Reader, 86, Micmac-English Dictionary, 185). The roots are plain. 
The prefix MOOL is the root of MOOLEOGEK, meaning A DEEP VALLEY, 
~ GULLY, connected with MOOLKWI, meaning I dig (Rand, Micmac-English Dic- 
tionary, 102). The root occurs also in a place name in the closely-allied Maliseet 
tongue, for those Indians call Sullivans Creek on the Saint John below Woodstock, 
MOOL-A-KESK’, which means, they say, IT RUNS DEEP, alluding to the depth 
of its valley. As applied toa large river such as Country Harbour really is, it 
would be equivalent precisely to the geographical term FIORD. The word in full 
would therefore be MOOL-A-BOOGWEK, meaning RIVER OF THE FIORD 
TIDEWAY, or RIVER OF THE DEEP VALLEY TIDEWAY. This name is 
strikingly descriptive and appropriate, for Country Harbour is remarkable for the 
bold rock walls bounding the most of its greatly elongated and river-like course. 
TEDUMUNEBOOGWEK, the Micmac name of Ship Harbour, Nova Scotia, 
given by Rand as TEDUMUNEBOOGWEK, meaning BLUNT RIVER (Reader, 99; 
Micmac-English Dictionary, 190-155). The roots are plain. TEDMUNAAK means 
BLUNT according to Rand’s English-Micmac Dictionary, 40, Micmac-English, 155; 
the E is evidently separative for ease of pronunciation between the roots; and the 
BOOKWEK means TIDEWAY, as explained above (page 180). The word, there- 
fore, would be TEDUMUN-E-BOOGWEK, meaning BLUNT TIDEWAY (RIVER), 
in description, no doubt, of the way in which the tideway comes to a blunt end 
at its head, not merging as usual imperceptibly with the fresh-water river, but 
receiving small abruptly entering streams directly into the tide water. 
KESOOSKIBOOGWEK, the Micmac name of River Philip, on the North Shore 
of Nova Scotia, said by Rand to mean FLOWING THROUGH HEMLOCK (Micmac- 
English Dictionar , 183). The roots are plain. Rand gives as the name for the 
hemlock UKSOOSK, evidently identical with the IKESOOSK of the name in ques- 
tion (Ængli h-Micmac Dictionary, 131); the I as usual is merely separative for ease 
of pronunciation between the roots; while BOOGWEK means TIDEWAY, as 
explained above (page 180). The word in full would be UKESOOSK-I-BOOGWEK, 
meaning TIDEWAY THROUGH HEMLOCK (RIVER) or RIVER OF THE 
HEMLOCK-BORDERED TIDEWAY. Rand also gives a diminutive of this, 
KESOOSKIBOOGWASES (op. cit. 183) but does not locate it; but in one of Gesner’s 
writings the identity of which I have lost, River Philip is given as KOOS-SOOS-TI- 
BOO-GUAC, RIVER WHERE HEMLOCK GROWS, while the KOOS-SOOS-TI- 
BOO-GUAC-SIS is given as the Pugwash River, which is doubtless correct. As to 
the appropriateness of the name, however, I have no knowledge, though I predict 
its accuracy. 
A matter of special interest about this name is this, that it is without doubt 
the KIGISKOUABOUGUET of the grant of Chignecto Seigniory of 1678 (these 
