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Place-nomenclature. • 



Forks, in which two branches of the river meet in a great T-shaped 

 gorge, is the most remarliable feature of the river, one might expect 

 the name to apply in some way to them. I think it very possible, 

 however, that the name originally applied to the Little Sevogle only, 

 and was extended to both rivers by the whites, and for this reason, 

 Rand gives (Reader, 91) for Little Sevogle, Elmitnakuncliecch, meaning 

 " a beaver's hole." Now, Elmunakun is the universally used (by the 

 Indians) name for the Northwest Miramichi, and the application of 

 the name Elmunakuncheech, or " Little Northwest," to the Big Sevogle 

 itself would be entirely natural (since in physical features, arrange- 

 ment of branches, etc., the Northwest and Sevogle are strikingly alike) 

 and in accordance with the Indian custom, while it seems wholly 

 improbable that so insignificant a stream as the Little Sevogle would 

 be called the " Little Northwest." Hence, I think, it likely that 

 Sevogle was applied originally to the Little Sevogle, and extended to 

 Big Sevogle by the whites as an easier word to pronounce than the 

 Indian name. 



The word first appears in the Land Memorials of 1805 as Little 

 Sougle, though in 1809 as Little Sewogle; early maps and records also 

 have Sevogle. The local nomenclature of the river will be given 

 in an article on the Sevogle, to be published in Bulletin No. 25 of 

 the Natural History Society of New Brunswick. 



Shediac River. — An old plan in the Crown Land Offlce names the south 

 branch of this river Eibougouck, no doubt its Micmac name. 



Sheephouse Brook. — A large branch of the South Branch Sevogle; called 

 also Big Brook. Locally the name is explained as originating in the 

 building of a little house for a sheep which a hermit kept there one 

 winter as a companion. This explanation seems to me very artificial, 

 even though names and dates are supplied with it, and I think it 

 very likely it is a corruption of the Micmac See-boo-sis, meaning "a 

 brook." The fact that its English equivalent is Big Brook is rather 

 confirmatory of this. (Its location is given approximately on a map 

 in Bull. N.H.S., V, 228). 



Shemogue. — As at present in Land Memorials of 1803. Rand (Reader, 84) 

 gives for Chimegwe, no doubt this stream, Oosumoogwik, meaning horned 

 river. I have been given by a Micmac Sitn-oo-a-qiiick. 



Shiktahawk. — The preferable spelling of this name. 



Shin Creek. — In this form in 1811 in the Land Memorials. Perhaps, for 

 Shin River, in Scotland. 



Shippegan. — Locally this name is pronounced in two ways; first, by the 

 English it is very strongly accented upon the first syllable, the final 

 syllable being very short; and second, by some French settlers speak- 

 English it is sounded Shippegang, the final syllable strongly sounded, 

 a form which is old, as shown by Winslow Papers, 501. Its earliest 

 known appearance is in 1656 in the form Cihaguen. (Letter of Father 

 Ignatius, Archives, 1904, 335). 



