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Place-T'Omenclature. 



cause lumbered by John McAdam) became known as McAdam, and 

 the name gradually was transferred to the Junction, the watering place 

 being- later named Maudsley (for a British capitalist interested in the 

 road). Thus the name gradually became applied to the junction and 

 was afterwards extended to the parish. This is probably strictly 

 correct, and it is wholly in conformity with the method by which place- 

 names arise. 



Medisco. — A point at Petit Rocher, according to Perley, Fisheries of N. B., 

 45; one of Gaudet's articles speaks of "Petit Rocher, autrement dite 

 Madisco." 



Meductic. — This name is now applied to the modern village just south of 

 the mouth of Eel River. 



Meductic Falls. — On the Peachey type of maps there occurs here a Qatli 0/ 

 Medoctu, long a puzzle to me. On a recently obtained copy of that 

 map, drawn by Sproule (mentioned later in Cartography addenda), 

 I find it written Gall of Medoctu, wlych, I have no question, is a 

 copyist's error for Fall — showing that Gath is an error for Fall or 

 Falls. 



Memel, in Albert. — Named by a German settler from that place in Germany, 

 as I am told by Hon. A. R. McClelan. 



Messinet Stream. — Named, no doubt, from some one of the family of a 

 French physician of that name who settled in St. George, and whose 

 descendants are still there, as I am told by Mr. J. Vroom. At one 

 time I thought this w'ord a corruption of an Indian name given in 

 the Land Memorials of 1797, which speaks of a stream in Pennfield 

 parish called Wasicasiciniwiclc, the identity of which is not known to me. 



Middle island. — The original grant of 1765 speaks of Middle Island lying 

 off Windmill Point. (Compare Nuinehcal, later). 



Middle River. — This appears to have been called by Plessis in ISll La 

 Rivière du Mitan (Journal, 114), though Mitan is, perhaps, a misprint 

 for Milieu. 



Midgic, Westmorland. — Appears first, so far as I have found, in the Land 

 Memorials of 1S12 as Point Mcdjecl;, though it must have been used 

 much earlier. 



Milnagek Lake, or Island Lake. — The name and the local nomenclature of 

 the vicinity is fully discussed in Bull. N. H. S., IV, 469. 



Milpagos. — Compare Rand's MUpauchlc, "having many coves" (Reader, 100). 

 and Milpagcch, variegated (101). 



Minaqua. — See Northwest Miramichi. 



Miramichi. — The origin of this name still eludes me. Its first use in a 

 modern form is as Mcsamichi in deMonts' Commission of 1603. To 

 the various fanciful explanations of it may be added that of M'Gre- 



