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root PETK or PETEK (page 27 1 preceding) ; and furthermore Baddeck, like Bedeque, 

 passed through the stage of French suggestion implied in its earlier spelling, but un- 

 like Bedeque has thrown off the mask and reverted to near the aboriginal form. 



The name Baddeck for the modern Village must necessarily have been given 

 by the whites as an extension from the River, and this is probably true also of the 

 small Bay east of the village, now called Baddeck Bay, and formerly Little Baddeck. 

 It is, however, possible that the latter name is merely a translation from the Indian, 

 since this Bay, like the Baddeck River, swings around in reverse of the course of 

 travel upwards or inwards, — in this case the entrance to Bras d'Or Lake; and the 

 application of Little Baddeck to the Bay would have been in accord with Indian 

 usage. But a thorough examination of the old records will settle all of these ques- 

 tions. 



In summary we may say that BADDECK is without reasonable doubt iden- 

 tical with BEDEQUE of Prince Edward Island, and is a corruption of the Micmac 

 Indian, probably PETEK-OOK or PETEK-OOCH, meaning literally BACK TURN- 

 PLACE, or more generally, THE PLACE THAT LIES ON THE BACKWARD 

 TURN, in description of the position of the River in relation to Indian travel from 

 Bras d'Or Lake. 



It is probable that the name EBITQUEGEECHK or EBËTKWËGEECHK, 

 given me some years ago by the late Michael Flinne, as the Micmac name for the 

 Millstream, which enters the Miramichi opposite Hospital Island, involves also this 

 root EPET(K), meaning BACKWARD TURN; and it may even be identical funda- 

 mentally with BEDEQUE and BADDECK, retaining still their old locative ending. 

 But I have not been able to connect the root PET(E)K with any feature of the place, 

 for although this stream does in fact bend around in reverse of the direction of the 

 River, the bend is upward and not downward; and Indian names are given with 

 reference to the. ascent, not the descent of Rivers. Accordingly the matter must 

 have further study. 



It is probable also that the root PET(E)K appears in PAATQUNOK, the Mic- 

 mac name for the Little South Branch of Nepisiguit River in northern New Bruns- 

 wick (these Transactions, II, 1896, ii, 256), a stream which enters near a great bend 

 in the River. But this word also must have further study. 



Pokwagamoos. 

 The name of several small Lakes in New Brunswick and Maine, as follows: 



A. In west central New Brunswick, emptying northward by a small Brook of 

 the same name into the middle part of Eel River, which is a branch of the Saint 

 John below Woodstock. It is a very shallow, marshy Lake with a bottom of the 

 softest mud, often partially above the surface in very dry weather. 



It appears first, so far as I can find, upon a plan of 1827, by West, in the Crown 

 Land Office, at Fredericton, in the form POQUAGAMUS, applied to the Brook. It 

 is on Saunders' map of New Brunswick, of 1842 in the form POCOWAGAMIS; 

 this was copied by other maps down to that of the Geological Survey of 1885 which 

 adopted POCOWOGAMIS. The Geographic Board of Canada has introduced a 

 new form, POKOW AGAMIS for this Lake. 



B. The aboriginal Indian name for the little Lake how called Mud Lake, at the 

 source of the Magaguadavic River in west-central New Brunswick. I have seen it 



