[ganon-g] additions TO MONOGRAPHS 9 



Place-nomenclature. 



Lead. — Occurs in Queens County for a narrow winding stream 

 between lakes. 



Midland. — The high land between two valleys ; has become tiie name 

 of more than one settlement. 



Lagoon. — This name on the north shore is purely a map name, 

 never used by the residents, who use the name bay. 



Pot-holes. — Applied often to the glacial sink-holes; and also to the 

 wells in rocks imder falls. 



Eapids. — Used in Gloucester Count}' to distinguish the swift fresh- 

 water part of a river from the Tideway. 



Slide. — An inclined place or slope of loose rock occurring in a gap 

 in a cliff. 



Sluice. — Used on the Nepisiguit for narrow rapids. 



Queue, (French, a tail). — aSTame for a little bay at the end of a 

 lake; used twice on Miscou Island. 



Tideway. — Used now in Gloucester County for the tidal part of a 

 river, in contra.distinction to Rapids; also in Cooney, 176. 



Turns. — Used in several places for abrupt bends in rivers. 



Works. — A place in the woods where lumbering has been done; 

 also usted for beaver workings; in old reports for the arrangements for 

 catching eels, — " eel-works." 



209. Another series of Indian, with some French, names, has 

 recently (1903) come into use, viz: — ^the names of the following stations 

 between St. John and Welsford, on the Canadian Pacific, — Acamac, 

 Ketepec, Martinon, Ononette, Pamdenec, Woolastook, Sagwa. This use 

 was suggested originally by Dr. G. U. Hay and the names were devised 

 in part by myself and in part by Dr. W. 0. Eaymond and others. Their 

 genesis is fully explained in the Educational Review, XVI, 189, and 

 individually in the Dictionary following, 



209. A comparatively new, but somewhat important, element has 

 recently been introduced into New Brimswick Place-nomenclature. 

 The last ten years have seen an immense development in this province 

 of big game hunting by American sportsmen, in connection with wliich 

 many guides have opened up new hunting-grounds among the remote 

 ponds and lakes. It has become customary among them to name these 

 places for the first sporstman who shoots a moose there, or who in 

 some other way becomes associated with the place. Thus a large number 

 of little lakes are being named for American sportsmen whose connection 

 with those placesi is of the most transient sort, though the name will 

 unquestionably persist. I have collected many of these names in my 



