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Place-nomenclature. 



Belvisor Bar. — On the St. John, above Meductic Falls. Used locally, but 

 origin not known. Belviso occurs in a return of Survey of 1785. 



Benton. — Said locally to have been named for a prominent American soldier 

 (T. R. Benton?), though this seems unlikely. 



Bittabock. — Name, locally known and undoubtedly Micmac, of a rocky island 

 on the lower Nepisiguit. Being a well-known fishing place, it is men- 

 tioned in sporting books by Lanman, Norris, Campbell and Roosevelt. 



Black Brook (near Loggieville). — Said locally to be a corruption of Blake's 

 Brook (confirmed by the presence of Bhilcv'n Flaia near by) for an early ' 

 resident, traditionally said to be the Captain Blake who commandea 

 the vessel which destroyed Burnt Church (narrated in Cooney, '6b). 



Bonum Gould. — Name of a settlement in Westmorland, so called for a 

 prominent Acadian resident, apparently Bonhomme Gould. 



Brideau, Rivière à.— Said locally to be so named for a former resident. It 

 is a Canadian-French name. 



Britt Brook; al.so Portage Lake Stream. — A New Brunswick family name; 

 no doubt for some early lumberman. 



Burgoins Ferry. — On the St. John, established in 1817. No doubt for the 

 Acadian family Burgoin, formerly, and still, residents of Upper French 

 Village near by. 



Burnt Church. — The teacher of the Indian school at Church Point, Charles 

 Bernard, himself a Micmac from Cape Breton, has kindly given me 

 the aboriginal Micmac names of a number of places in the vicinity 

 of Church Point. I give them here precisely as he writes them to 

 me. Some of them I have no doubt are correct, but as to others, 

 especially in the meanings, I am doubtful. The Indian village here 

 he gives as Esginoo o putkh, fully confirming the name from other 

 sources. Burnt Church River has no Indian name, he says, other 

 than the village name with Seeboo added. Portage Island, Mogulawce- 

 chooacadie, meaning, "A place where the Brant Geese are plenty and 

 they are generally shot, as it were " ; River de Cache, Peskej, meaning 

 "little branch"; Grand Dune River, Abeeamkej, meaning "lined bot- 

 tom" (?); Stymest's Millstream, Akbascch, meaning "it curves"; 

 Neguac, Annikcooek, meaning "Annie is wandering alone," explained as 

 the expression of an Indian whose wife, named Annie, became lost (!!); 

 Hay Island, Ooenjooi, Menigoo, meaning "French Island"; Portage 

 Brook, Gashalaooacadie, meaning " Gaspereaux are abundant," by some 

 Indians called Maliojek, said to mean place where lived an Indian 

 woman, Malioj; French Cove, Skassikuakenek, meaning "place of 

 torching." 



Cabin du Clos. — Name of the point separating the upper from the lower 

 part of Tracadie Bay. It is now simply a piece of low wooded 

 upland (forming a very charming camping place), and is said locally 

 to have been named from the camp or cabin of an Indian named 



