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Place-nomenclature. 



' Poodic,' and, half in jest, this name was forwarded. In due time 

 the office material arrived and on the stamp was Poodiac. Why the 

 Post Office autliorities inserted the a I never knew." This explan- 

 ation is sustained by the fact that Poodic, from the Indian Purpooduck, 

 is a suburb south of Portland, Maine, on the north shore of Cape 

 Elizabeth. This name is of especial interest as illustrating well the 

 extremely trivial origin of many place-names. 



Popelogan, C. — As Police Login Bay and Poughelagen Bay in Land IMemorials 

 of 1785 and 1786; Pocologin Stream on Sproule's map of 1786; Popologan, 

 1815, in Land Memorials. The name is, no doubt, connected with 

 logan and bogan used for quiet coves beside a river in Maine and New 

 Brunswick. The word is discussed by Tooker in the American An- 

 thropologist, I, 165. 



Popes Folly. — Two islands at Passamaquoddy have borne this name. One 

 (now commonly called Mark Island, which see, close to Campobello) 

 was named, no doubt, because of some connection with Zeba Pope, 

 who lived there in 1808 (see Monograph on Boundaries, 359). The 

 other, between Indian Island and Casco Bay Island, was, perhaps, 

 named for the same man. Lorimer says that on this island (Passa- 

 maquoddy Islands, 95) " poor Pope, in 1812, established a trading post 

 and lost all." This name FoUg is not uncommonly applied to unsuc- 

 cessful business ventures by neighbours, who are always wiser after 

 than before an event, and it appears elsewhere in CUtich's Folly (on 

 the charts for an island near Letang) and Folly Point, in Westmorland. 



Portobello. — One of our still unexplained names. Portobello, in South Am- 

 erica, was captured by Admiral Vernon in 1739, and I have been told 

 that there were formerly residents of Maugerville of this name; pro- 

 bably this is only a coincidence, but there may be a cause and effect 

 connection. It is locally explained, as given earlier, in these addenda. 

 Dr. Raymond has suggested that the name may have been given 

 for some connection with Capt. William Spry, who had large grants 

 in this vicinity in pre-Loyalist times, and who may have been at the 

 taking of Porto-Bello in South America. 



Quaco. — An old plan in the Crown Land Office has this inscription, north 

 of the present Quaco Head, — " Oreequaco, so called, a point of rock 

 resembling a human head and neck," while another reads, " High 

 Point of Rock resembling the profile of a human head and neck, called 

 by the Indians " Oreequacco." The origin of the name is discussed 

 in Bull N.H.S., IV, 72. Locally explained as noted earlier, in these 

 addenda. 



Quisibis. — On the Sproule map of 1787 (Map No. 39, later) as Squisiiis. 



Renforth. — Named by summer residents in Oct., 1903, in honour of the 

 English oarsman of that name, who died in a race on the Kennebecasis 

 many years ago; earlier called The Chalet. 



Renous River. — Its nomenclature is discussed in Bull. N. H. S., V, 311. It 

 appears first as River Renou in the Land Memorials of 1808. 



