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THE GRAVELLY BEND, in description of characteristics of the locality, the word 

 having been familiarized by the whites into the more easily pronounced form PATA- 

 GUMKIS, or, by the river men, PADAGUMPUS. 



PETCONGAMOC. The Penobscot Indian name for a pond at the head of the 

 Allagash River in Maine, according to Hubbard (Woods and Lakes of Maine, 209), 

 who, however, does not show it on his map. He explains the name as meaning 

 "crooked pond, or one that returns in the same direction in which it first ran." This 

 explanation, given in quotation marks, and hence taken by Hubbard from an Indian, 

 in conduction with the form of the word, make the construction of the name quite 

 clear. It evidently involves the root PETK meaning BACK TURN, as already 

 considered above (page 271), united with ONGAMOC, or ONGAMOK, a common 

 suffix meaning LAKE. Thus the word in full would be PETK-ONGAMOK meaning 

 THE BACK TURN-LAKE, in description of its shape. 



The root PETEK perhaps occurs in another Maine place-name not far from 

 Petcongamoc, for Bouchette's large Map of Canada of 1831, — a map which incor- 

 porates the work of the earlier surveyors of the disputed boundaries, — applies PATA- 

 ACTLTQUAC to a stream which is apparently no other than the present Ragmuff, 

 above Chesuncook on Penobscot, though making it empty too far down the river. 

 This word looks very much like a form of PETEK-TUGUAC, which would be a good 

 combination meaning BACK TURN-RIVER or OXBOW RIVER, though no reason 

 for such a name is evident on the map. Hubbard, however, gives the Indian name 

 for Ragmuff as PÂTÂ'WEEKTOOK, meaning BURNT LAND STREAM, which is 

 clearly composed of two roots PÂTÂWEEK-TOOK meaning literally BURNT 

 LAND-RIVER (Woods and Lakes of Maine, 208, and Map). Curiously enough 

 Thoreau gives for this same stream, PAYTAYTEQUICK, with the same meaning 

 as Hubbard, his form being intermediate between Bouchette's and Hubbard's (The 

 Maijie Woods, 325). Whether, now, Bouchette's form is really meant to be sounded 

 with the A's long, and is simply a bad corruption of roots meaning BURNT LAND 

 STREAM, or whether his name is what it seems, and the later Indian informants 

 of Thoreau and Hubbard have interpreted the word wrongly, must await decision 

 from further historical evidence in conjunction with an intimate knowledge of the 

 place. 



PATAGUSSIS. The Penobscot Indian name for the Brook now called Smith 

 Brook, a branch of the Matawamkeag River in Maine, according to Hubbard (Woods 

 and Lakes of Maine, 207). Smith Brook is a large stream entering the Matawam- 

 keag just where the railroad makes its uppermost crossing of that River, but no map 

 that I can find has a scale sufficiently large to show its characteristics. The name 

 seems, however, to involve the root PETK, or PET(E)K, of the several words pre- 

 ceding, with the diminutive termination SIS, making it, with a final locative K, — 

 PETK-ESISK or PETEK- ESISK, meaning LITTLE BACK TURN, or LITTLE 

 OXBOW. Hence I venture the prediction that the characteristics of the place 

 would show that this brook comes in at an oxbow, which is a small one in contrast 

 with a larger not far distant on the River. 



Bedcquc 



The name of a prominent Bay on the southwest side of Prince Edward Island; 

 also of the Harbour formed by the easterly prolongation of the Bay; also of Settle- 

 ments around the southeasterly extension of the Harbour, which merges into an 

 estuary called Dunk River. 



