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TotaM.—The aboriginal name tor Falmouth,! embracing Portland, 
Towsssic, and, without the locative, Towass,’ is a point in Woolwich that lies over against the 
upper end of Arrowsie Island.’ The Indian explanation refers the meaning to “breaking through,” 
This idea will suit the fact that the by-river of some note called “ Sasanoa,” in the account of the 
Popham colony,* here passes through a broken place in the high walls of the Kennebec. Perhaps 
it may be translated “ The Broken Passage.” _ ’ 
TUNK, applied to a mountain in Hancock County; also toa pond. It appears to be the end of 
a word, as it is in Carritunk. As the mountain is called “Big” and the pond “ Great,” the Indian 
name may have been in correspondence with these descriptions; for which AVtche-t-unk (Chetunk) 
will be the appropriate word. 
WAUKEAG.—Neck, in Frenchman’s Bay. This may have been Wamnkeag, i.e., Wamkik. The 
name may have been taken from wampi,? clear, shallow, (water,) and kik, a locative, from shallow 
water near it, and may represent “ Shallow Bay.” 
W ANSQUEAK,® harbor in Goldsboro’, 
WaASS is an English surname,’ now known in the eastern part of the State, 
WEBHANNET is the Indian name of the town of Wells; from 7eb,® a wife, hanne, a stream, and 
et, a locative; and may find its representative in wife-river. A similar appliance of this feminine 
relation may be seen in Squarcagusset, Squawhan, Squawkeag. 
This explanation is illustrated by the fact that about 1649 Chabinoke devised to John Wad- 
leigh “all his interest in Nampseascoke, being the larger part of Wells, on the condition of the 
annual allowance of a bushel of corn to the ‘Old Webb, (i. e., wife,) his mother.” ® 
WeEscustoGco.—Royal’s River in Yarmouth. The analysis of this word resolves it into Hovass- 
koos-togue-oke, Pine-stream-trout-place ; all which describe facts once true. The first syllable has 
been dropped. — . 
WESKEAG is said to mean Grassy River, But if it be an abbreviation for Howasskik, then it 
will be Pine River; ko being dropped. 
WHISKEAG, also in a Pejepscot map written Worsqueage, suggesting Howasskik, with the same 
meaning as in the last definition, / being lost in English pronunciation. It isa small stream on the 
west side of the Kennebec, and is regarded as the third of the “runs of water” passed over by 
Waymouth and his party in his exploration in 1605, and mentioned in Rosier’s Narrative as “the 
farthest and last-we passed,” which “ran with a great stream able to drive a mill,” as it now does, 
Pines once abounded here. 
WINCHEAG BAy, east of Mount Desert, where M. Cadillac lived.’ Winne, beautiful, Ktche, 
great, ag or ak, a locative. 
WICHACOWICK, the name applied to Ellsworth River and Falls. This word is of the like 
composition with the others dependent on the Pines. In one of the cognate dialects a word is 
found written witsh-wock-ak, explained as pine-nuts, which must be the cones; ak denoting the 
plural. Thus, this name will be witsch, a euphonie, kooé, or co, pine, ick, loecative, Place of Pine-tree 
cones, or, more awkwardly, Cones of Pine place. 
WISCASSET, Called by the Indians Wichcasset, has been thought to mean “the confluence of 
three waters.” But there is nothing in the composition of the word to sustain the definition. The 
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same may be said of “the place of springs.” Its origin is like that of the last word. Witschkovwass, 
plural of koé, et, locative ; Wichkwass-et, Place of Pine-Tree Cones, or Pine-cones-place. 
'J. De Laet, quoted by Williamson, I, 39, 
2Or Towess. 
3 Pejepscot Papers, Vol. I, 121, called Towasset Bay, (Back Bay;) Williamson, LI, 347, as a boundary of Wool- 
wich. The syllables et and ie have a similar meaning, 
4 Strachey, Caput X, Sept 27th. 
5 Umbagog las a similar origin in womp-be from nebe, water, g euphonic, og or ok, a locative, i. ¢., Shallow Lake, cor- 
responding with the fact. 
®©This may have been Wompskeag, with a meaning like the preceding, 
7 Willis’ Portland, 321. 
® Woods’ N. E. Prospect. 
°Folsom’s Saco., p. 120. 
10 Williamson, I, 588; note. 
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