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the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, IV, 1898, 59. On plans in the Crown 

 Land Office at Fredericton it is also named POQUE-A-WIS and POCEAWIS, the 

 latter form showing (its C evidently intended to be sounded hard) that the word is 

 pronounced in four syllables. The form POQUE-A-WIS appears to ally the word 

 to those containing POKW, meaning SHALLOW, and this seems fully confirmed 

 by a description of the place sent me by Mr. Thomas A. Sullivan, of Bonny River, 

 who knows it well. He says that it is not a lake proper, but "a deadwater brook 

 one eighth of a mile wide by one mile long with narrows in the middle," and later 

 adds that the narrows are low boggy-banked, with a rocky rip in the middle one 

 hundred feet long. One might suppose that the existence of the narrows would 

 involve the root POK meaning NARROW, and this may be the case, though the 

 POKWA, meaning SHALLOW would seem to apply better, since the narrows are 

 evidently far from the typical sort. The remainder of the word I do not under- 

 stand, though possibly it is a great condensation of AGAMOOS, making the entire 

 word equivalent to POKWAGAMOOS. Compare also the following. I am sure 

 a study of the locality would solve it. 



PUCKY. A lake on Machias waters in southeastern Maine, three miles from 

 Pokomoonshine Lake, according to Gatschet (a letter of 1898). He adds that it is 

 called by the Indians KEWE'SIK KU'SPEM. As KUSPEM is simply the Indian 

 translation of our word LAKE, and its usage in this way is not aboriginal, I suspect 

 that KEWESIK involves the root LAKE, and that PUCKY may represent its 

 original prefix. In this case the original word may have been PUCKEWESIK, 

 making it substantially the same as the POKEAWIS (with addition of a locative 

 IK), previously considered, and therefore perhaps another "Mud Lake." This view 

 receives confirmation from the fact that the Sportsman's and Lumberman's Map of 

 Maine names a small lake on the Machias about three miles below Pokomoonshine 

 Lake, and which is probably this PUCKY, Mud Lake. 



No case of the occurrence of POKWAGAMOOS, or anything closely like it, is 

 known to me anywhere in the territory of the Micmacs. However, as suggested by 

 the forms POKEAWIS and PUCKY just considered, it is possible that a Micmac 

 root equivalent to POKWA is involved in the names of certain Nova Scotian Lakes 

 as they appear on our maps, viz., POGWA Lake emptying into the head of Saint 

 Margarets Bay, POGUE Brook, emptying into the Stewiacke, and PUG Lakes 

 emptying into Clyde River. But these names must have further study, from the 

 documents and the Micmacs. 



POKWASEGWEK. The Indian name of the stream now called the North 

 East Branch of the River Magaguadavic in south-central New Brunswick; extended 

 also on some later maps to the Lakes at the head of the Branch, now called Cran- 

 berry Lakes. The word occurs first in 1784-5 in the form POCASHAGUACK, ap- 

 plied to the lakes, on a Ms. map in the Crown Land Office at Fredericton, showing 

 the winter route of Lieutenant Lambton from Fredericton to Saint Andrews. It 

 next appears in the Journals and on the Map made by Dugald Campbell, one of the 

 expert surveyors of the Magaguadavic River, in 1797, in the form PEGUESEGE- 

 HAWK, or PEQUESEGGEHAWK as printed in the Collections of the New Bruns- 

 wick Historical Society, III, 1909, 186, 188. The word is nowhere explained, but 

 I think there is no question at all as to its origin and meaning. The first part of the 

 word suggests, through the two forms POCA and PEQUE, the root POWKA, mean- 

 ing SHALLOW, already considered (page 282). Turning to Father Ras\e' s Dictionary 

 of the allied Abenaki (523) we find the word, PANG8ÉSS8, meaning "the river is 



