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map of the Province of 1885 and by many others since then. Seeking, now, a reason 

 for the adoption of this form on the Geological Map, we find a suggestion in the 

 statement on the map itself, that it was compiled "from plans by the Admiralty, 

 Crown Lands and Geological Surveys." Since the form could not have been taken 

 from the plans of the Crown Land Office, as the records above given well show (one 

 possible case from a Land Memorial, not a plan, of 1815 is perhaps an error of my 

 notes), we turn to the Admiralty charts. There the explanation is found, since the 

 most detailed chart of this coast, that of Quoddy Hd. to C. Lepreau, made by Ad- 

 miral Owen in 1845, while giving no name to Harbour or Stream, has POPE LOGAN 

 for the Island, with LOGAN POINT at the south entrance to the Harbour; and this 

 is obviously the source of the POPELOGAN of the Geological Map. Now, as to the 

 origin of the name on Owen's chart, I do not think it represented at all any local 

 usage, but involved some theory of Owen's as to what the word ought to be, pre- 

 cisely as in the case of Dochet Island, already discussed in these Transactions, VIII, 

 1902, ii, 142-3. Admiral Owen was a cousin of David Owen, longtime resident of 

 Campobello Island, and was no doubt influenced by the latter's ideas upon local mat- 

 ters. Now, David Owen has left a list of place-names, dominated by the idea that 

 many of the Indian names at Passamaquoddy were in reality French, adopted 

 by the Indians, as already explained in this series {these Transactions, V, 1912, ii, 

 193); and I have little doubt that as David Owen believed Passamaquoddy to be an 

 Indian corruption of a French Passe-en Acadie, and Grand Manan an Indian cor- 

 ruption of a French form of Great Mary, so his cousin, following the same line of 

 thought, took POCOLOGAN for a similar Indian corruption of POPE somebody, 

 presumably LOGAN. At all events, whether or not this explanation of the origin 

 of this form be precisely correct, there seems to be no doubt at all that Owen's form 

 is the origin of the spelling now on our latest maps, and that it originated with him. 

 This form POPELOGAN, accordingly, has a wholly illegitimate origin, and as it 

 has not yet established itself locally, it should be dropped in favor of the form POCO- 

 LOGAN, which has in its favor historical priority, a century of good usage, a per- 

 fectly definite local and official (in school district and station) standing, and, as will 

 be shown below, consistency with etymological origin. For purposes of purely 

 scientific etymology, it would more naturally be written POKOLOGAN, but it seems 

 best, in the case of long-used names, to give recognition to their history, and not 

 displace historic forms by new ones, whose only merit is a better theoretical form. 



Analysis of the Word. — All indications point, of course, to an Indian origin 

 of the name. I have not myself obtained its original form from them, but Edward 

 Jack, an interested and competent student of these matters, obtained it as PECK-E- 

 LÂ-GAN, meaning "a place for stopping at, where one touches" (in a letter, and 

 given, somewhat misprinted, in his article in the Journal of American Folk-Lore, VIII, 

 1895, 205). This, by the way, is the origin of the form Pec-e-lay'-gan, which I altered 

 thus to avoid accents, in these Transactions, II 1896, ii, 263, and which has been 

 copied since then in various publications, including the Century Dictionary (see page 

 289 later). Again, M. Chamberlain, who also knew these Indians well, gives PÈK-I- 

 TA'-KÛN, an obvious misprint for PËK-I-LA'-KÛN (Maliseet Vocabulary, 60). 

 These two forms, taken from the Indians quite independently of one another, are in 

 very ciose agreement, while they come near as well to the early forms above re- 

 corded, excepting for some rounding off of the vowels in the English speech. Hence 

 we may accept the aboriginal form as something very close to PEK-E-LA'-GU/N, 

 with all the vowels short. Further than this, however, I have not been able to 

 follow the word with any certainty. I cannot find therein any roots that surely 

 match the meaning given by Jack. Furthermore, I cannot find the name, even 



