[ganong] additions TO MONOGRAPHS SI 



Place-no7nenclature. 



Tetagouche. — Is the better form. A partially French form appears on 

 Arrowsmith's map of 1838, in the form Tete-a-grouche. Gesner (New 

 Brunswick, 197) says, " Tootoogoose corrupted by the French to Tete- 

 a-grouche." A story has grown up to explain the French form of 

 the name, — that the first explorers found it heading to the left, etc. 

 Rev. Father Pacifique writes me he believes this name is simply the 

 Micmac Odoodooguceh, meaning a squirrel. Curiously enough, the oldei 

 plans of the river show a narrow place near Grand Falls on this rivet 

 called " the squirrel's jump." 



Tiarks Lake. — On Tiarks own map of 1820 this lake is called Rimousky 

 Lake; it first appears in its present form on Graham's map of 1843. 

 It is not true that Tiarks was afterwards an arbiter in the New 

 Brunswick-Quebec boundary controversy — that was Travers Twiss. 



Tobique. — There is, I think, no question that this river was named for an 

 Indian chief of that name who lived formerly on the river. The 

 tradition of the Indians themselves to this effect is confirmed by the 

 D. Campbell map of 1784 which has (corrected copy) Tobique's River, 

 the possessive confirming this origin very strongly. That there was 

 such a chief as Tobique is shown by various documents which Mr. 

 Raymond has mentioned, and also by an entry in the register of the 

 Indian church at Kingsclear, which reads: — "Le vingt dense août 1767 

 a été inhumé a Medoactec Noel toubic chef decedé pendant I'hyver 

 age de plus de soixante ans. Le corps d'Agnes toubic sour du défund 

 mort le printems fut aussi inhumé en même temps. Charles Bailly, 

 prêtre." 



The Indian name of the river is Negoot. I am inclined to think 

 this name is connected with Nictau = Forks, alluding to the frequent 

 forking of the river in its upper part, especially the right hand branch. 



The nomenclature of the many lakes on the right-hand branch 

 is mentioned under Negoot, which see, and that of the vicinity of 

 Nictor Lake is given in Bull. N. H. S., IV, 250. 



Toby Guzzle. — Name of a small deadwater, and very crooked branch of the 

 Digdeguash near McAdam, and also formerly a station or siding of 

 the railroad here. A Guzzle is an English term for drain or ditch. 

 The word is also used in the Field-book of the Surveyors of the 

 Magaguadavic in 1797 for tiny streams emptying into a lake. 



Tracadie. — The local nomenclature is mostly simple and self-explanatory, 

 being obviously descriptive. I have not been able to identify the 

 Anscout branch of the river mentioned by Cooney. The odd Acadian 

 name Surreau Blanc, and Barreau Point are discussed separately. John 

 Boys River, a former name for Portage River, is said, as Dr. Smith 

 tells me, to have been named for one John Nile, dit, John Boy, who 

 lived beside the bridge crossing Portage River. Bonami Nose Brook 

 was named, as I learn from different sources, for one Bonamy or, 

 Barnaby Noel, an Indian, who formerly lived there, and, I presume, 

 the name is a corruption of Bonami Noel's Brook, though locally a 

 rock of a nose-shape, etc., is adduced to explain the name. Lord and 

 Foy Brook is so named for early lumbermen. 



