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Place noyiienclature. 



Mal Baie. — See Miscou. 



Malcontentes, Ruisseau des. — A small stream emptying into Cocagne Har- 

 bour south of Dixon Point, so named, as I am informed by M. Gaudet, 

 because a group of expelled Acadians settled there for a time after 

 the expulsion. 



Malpec. — Name of a small brook east of Neguac. Said by Chas. Bernard, 

 Indian teacher at Church Point, to be in Micmac Malhek, meaning 

 *' water is low." Pronounced locally Mawl-pec. 



iVIaltampec. — This name, though thus pronounced in local use. is misprhited 

 on all printed maps, as Mattampec, though it is correctly written on 

 plans in the Crown Land Office. It is undoubtedly Micmac, though 

 I do not know its meaning. On the Ferguson map of 1811 it is 

 written Eanamagauch, apparently another Micmac name. 



Mahalawodiac River. — Very little known locally (called Little River, or Little 

 Buctouche), except to local antiquarians; it seems to be known to 

 them (Gaudet and Father Michaud) as Madagouiac. 



Mamozekel. — First on Garden's plan of 1835 as Manimysckcl. I am told by Mr. 

 M. Hardy, of Brewer, Me., that he was on the Tobique in 1858, and that 

 the Indians give him the name as Ebemeenarzekel; ebemenar, meaning 

 red berries like mountain cranberries, thus would agree to some extent 

 with my Indian informant who gave it as " bushy stream." The 

 name is also applied to Britt Brook, a branch of Serpentine, the latter, 

 indeed, seeming to be the main He-be-se-kel, and the Mamozekel 

 being Ec-hc-se-kcl-sis, the little Hebezekel, though a much larger 

 stream than the former. 



Manne, Rivière de. — River flowing into Miramichi in the Acadian Period 

 mentioned by St. Valier in 1688; probably Burnt Church River. 



Maquapit. — The Indians agree that it is from the word Maqua = red. Rev. 

 R. W. Colston has written me the explanation which is, no doubt, cor- 

 rect. He says there is much red gravel along its shores, and that 

 after heavy rains much red mud is carried into the lake. I find it 

 in 1785 as Maquapec in the Land Memorials. But it is not the R. de 

 Maquo of 1672, as later shown under Seigniories in Historic Sites 

 addenda. 



Marcelle, Pointe. — Said locally, and no doubt correctly, to be so named for a 

 former resident, Marcelle Le Clair. 



Mark Island (also called Pope's Folly, which see). — So named, no doubt, 

 because serving as a mark in the navigation of the West Passage, 



Maringouin Cape. — Locally commonly called Merry Magwin. There is a 

 local tradition that it was so called because a prisoner was once ex- 

 posed there to be bitten to death by mosquitoes. This is probably 

 only a legend, which has arisen to explain the name. 



