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It is possible that the name PED-COKE-GOWAC, on the coast of Maine near 

 the Kennebec {Collections of the Maine Historical Society, VII, 1876, 301) involves 

 roots identical with those in Petitcodiac, but I have not yet been able to determine 

 this matter. 



Again it is possible that MOLLYGOJACK, a name which appears to be Micmac, 

 for a lake of curved or bent-around shape on the Terra Nova River in Newfoundland, 

 involves the same roots in its latter part as Petitcodiac, though the resemblance to the 

 local pronunciation of the latter (page 269) may be only accidental. This I hope 

 later to settle. 



BADKICK. The Passamaquoddy Indian name for a remarkable great bend 

 on the Magaguadavic River, in southwestern New Brunswick, just above the present 

 Bonny River, as shown on the detailed map made by Dugald Campbell for the 

 Boundary Commissioners in 1797 (Collections of New Brunswick Historical Society, 

 III, 1909, 177-8). On that map the name is placed on the point or tongue of the 

 bend, in this form, — "Badkick or Pt. back again," showing that the surveyors ap- 

 plied the name to the Point. However, it is perfectly clear that the Indian name 

 belonged to the bend in the river, since this brings the word into perfect harmony 

 with others to follow, and since also the alternative form which the surveyors give, 

 viz. "back again", can obviously apply only to the river and not to the point. In 

 harmony with the two words to follow, and with the first root of Petitcodiac, the word 

 evidently contains the root PETK, meaning BACK TURN, or BACK BEND, with 

 the locative syllable IK indicating PLACE, making the word PETK-IK, meaning 

 BACK BEND-PLACE, or PLACE WHERE THE RIVER BENDS BACK. The 

 name does not reappear in any records, nor is it known locally; but it should be re- 

 stored and should keep its historic form BADKICK. 



PETKEK. The Maliseet Indian name, as I have somewhere been told though 

 I have lost my evidence, of a place on the Tobique River, New Brunswick, presum- 

 ably the bend now called the Oxbow a little below the Gulquac Branch (these Trans- 

 actions, II 1896, ii, 276). The word of course would be identical in every respect 

 with BADKICK just discussed, and with PATICAKE that follows. My suppos- 

 ition, however, in the Transactions above cited, that there is a connection between 

 this word and PET-A-WE-KEK-SIS, the Maliseet name for Burnt Land Brook near 

 by, proves incorrect, since this Indian name means BURNT LAND BROOK, as I 

 shall show later in connection with other words involving the same roots. 



PATICAKE. The name of a small Creek flowing into the Kennebecasis 

 River a little above Hampton in southern New Brunswick. It appears first in 1785 

 as PATTICAKE and PADEKACE (the C being intended evidently, as hard), in 

 the Land Memorials preserved at Fredericton; it is PATTICAKE on the fine Sproule 

 map of 1786 (these Transactions, VII, 1901, ii, 412, but a corrected copy), PATU- 

 CAKE on a plan of 1811, and PATIKAKE, later PATICAKE (with some mis- 

 prints) on the various maps of the Province down to the present. That the word 

 is Maliseet Indian, the evidence conclusively shows. I have not myself obtained the 

 word from them, but the late Edward Jack, one of the best of authorities, gives it as 

 Maliseet, in these words, — "Pattacake, on Kennebecasis, should be Pat-kick-bend 

 an oxbow in stream," (Journal of American Folk-Lore, VIII, 1895, 205), while Dr. 

 W. O. Raymond has written me that John Paul, one of the best informed Indians, 

 gave him an origin in PATY-KIK (or PAT-I-KECH) applying to the bend in the 

 river just there. It is a fact, as the best maps show, that this brook enters the 



