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Place-novienclature. 



Ormond Lake — In 1837, the year this name was given, the Marquess of 

 Ormonde had his seat at Kill^enny Castle, Ireland, and very likely, 

 as Chief Butler of Ireland, he had some part in the coronation of 

 Queen Victoria in that year, thus leading Mahood to connect his name 

 with that of Victoria and Adelaide. The late J. Allan Jack was of 

 opinion, however, as expressed in letters to me, that it was named 

 for Col. Ormond, of whom there is a full account in Acadiensis, II, 19. 



Oromocto Lake. — For a discussion of this name, and of the various local 

 names around the Northwest Lake, see Bull. N. H. S., V, 193. 



Osnaburg. — A temporary name for Fredericton, used as early as Oct. 20, 

 1784 (as shown by a petition of that date still extant), and used occa- 

 sionally even after the name Fredericton was given in 1785. The 

 name was for the same prince for whom Fredericton -was named, 

 Frederick, Duke of York, Bishop of Osnaburg. 



Pabineau. — The origin of this name, from the Acadian name of the high- 

 bush cranberry, is fully discussed in Acadiensis, I, 88. 



Palfrey Lake. — Playford's plan of Survey around Howard Settlement, 1833, 

 has Palphry Brook, and possibly the name was given by him, and the 

 St. Andrews and Quebec Railway Survey, 1836, has the Palfrey Moun- 

 tains. I am told, however, by Mr. John Stewart, who knew this 

 country well, that it was so called for an old trapper of that name, 

 while Mr. W. H. Venning tells me he remembers hearing, many years 

 ago, that it was so named for the first man to cut a saw log on it. 

 Inquiries at Vanceboro, made of old residents for me by Dr. Young, 

 have failed to yield further information about such a person, though 

 it is very likely the lake and stream were named for some early 

 hunter or lumberman, or, very likely, for an Indian resident or hunter. 



Palmerston. — Has vanished entirely, both the parish and settlement being 

 now called St. Louis de Kent. 



Pamdenec^CFormerly Hillside, on the C.P.R.). Recent Maliseet name, 

 meaning a little hill (see earlier in these addenda). 



Pamomkeag. — ^(Formerly Nases, on the C.P.R.). Recent Maliseet name, 

 meaning river beach (see earlier in these addenda). 



Passamaquoddy Bay. — This word is fully analyzed by Prince, in Proc. Am. 

 Phil. Soc, XXXVIII, ISl; also in Leland and Prince, Kuloscap the 

 Master, 23. In the Jesuit Relation of 1675-77 (Relations, LX, 262) 

 it occurs as pessemouquote or pertemagouate, which latter form is both 

 the earliest known and also very near to the aboriginal form. The 

 earliest use of the modern form appears in the account of Prince's 

 voyage in 1734 i(N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., V, 376) as Jfessamequoddy. 



The Boundary MS. contain abundant testimony as to the exact 

 location of the name, from which it is plain that orginally it did not 

 apply to the spacious bay now having that name, but to the region 

 between Deer Island, Campobello, and the American shore, from Head 

 Harbor to the Cobscook (see Monograph on Boundaries, 277). This 



