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Lescarbot and Biard is Chowacéet, (pron. Shwa-co-et,) and probably had a connection with the falls a 
few miles above its mouth; more names than one not being unusual to mark a stream. The word 
msooahg, meaning dead, dry, as applied to 2vood, followed by kooe, pine-tree, and the locative et, 
gives m’soo-ah-koo-et ; easily changed by the French writers to the word presented above. The 
pines, once abundant there, may have been burned, like the forests around the Skootak, (Fire land 
Lakes,) and the adjoining territory, thus desolated, may have originated the idea of The dead-pine- 
falls. The oldest reported word of the harder utterance yielded to the easier, and Saco now denotes 
the river, falls, and city. 
SAGADAHOC.—This name is thus written in Bp phen? s Latin letter to the King, in 1607. It is 
derived from sanktai-i-wi, to finish, and onk, a locative, that is, the finishing place ; where a river 
ceases to be ariver. It means the mouth of a river ; but was applied geographically by the Indians 
to indicate the mouth of the Kennebec, which alone of the large rivers preserves its character of a 
river till it reaches the ocean. The original form would be Sank-ta-onk. Purchas places the name 
in the mouth. It is written with nearly sixty variations,! in some of which the first syllable sank is 
preserved. Near its mouth Popham’s colony, in 1607, built their Fort St. George. 
SASANOA.—The name of an Indian, who is proved, by a careful examination of Rosier’s narra- 
tive of Weymouth’s voyage to the Kennebec, compared with Strachey’s account of the same and 
of the Popham colony, and with Gorges’ “ Brief Narration,” to have been a chief of distinction, 
closely related to the Bashaba, whose name, as appears in Strachey and Purchas, was applied to a 
by-river of some note, meaning the inland passage by water from the Kennebec to the Sheepscot, 
and by Smith to Agamenticus. ‘! 
SEBASCODEGAN.—Great island in Harpswell. Among the several variations occurs the early 
form of Chebascodiggin. Itche is great; Chascodegan? in Penobscot is a measure. This solution of the 
name shows that the natives had taken some means of measuring the island, and had found it great. 
SEGULY, in Strachey’s account of the Popham colony, is called Sutquin.® Smith says Sagadahoc 
is known by Satquin and four or five isles at its mouth.!’ The meaning is not ascertained. The present 
name is a Spanish word. 
SHEEPSCOT is derived from seep, a ee sis, little, @ euphonic, and cot, a locative. In the 
Etchemin dialect seep is duck. Seepsisacot is Little-bird-place. The well-marked tradition is that 
the Indians annually, at the proper season, resorted to this river for the purpose of taking the 
young ducks, which were found in great plenty there. 
Sisquisic.—Cousin’s River, Yarmouth. 
SKILLINGS, from a family of that name.° 
SMALL Pornt.—Levett, 1623, calls it the “Cape of Sagadahoc.” On an ancient map, in India 
ink, of the Kennebee and the adjoining territory, made by John Small, surveyor, it is called by the 
present name. The “Small” family was resident in the neighborhood for many years, probably at 
or near “Small Point Harbor.” <A field-book of another survey of the Kennebec, made about a 
century ago, is preserved in the library of the Maine Historical Society. 
SPURWINK.—A stream in Searboro’, of which the name has some resemblance to an English 
ocal name. 
Sr. GEORGE'S R1vER.—The name St. George was given by Popham to Monhegan; and after 
this island became known by its original name, it was transferred to the islands and river now thus 
denoted. 
SusQUESONG.—C ousin’ s Island, Yar rmouth. 
1 On Johnson’s Map of 1754, Redicated ian Governor Shirle A this name is given to the Tie oggin, (Androscoggin, ) 
as the principal of two alternate names, with the remark that it was “so called by Mr. Pople.”! Sagadahoc R., so called 
by Mons. Bellin, and also by most or all the ancient plans “ Strachey’s account of the Popham colony speaks only of 
this and Pemaquid Rivers, and mentions Gilbert’s going with an expedition for the head of the river Sachadehoe,” Chap. 
X. All the indications of his narrative point to the present Androscoggin, and the name being thus applied in John- 
son’s Map is confirmatory of the traditional use of this appellation. 
2In Rale, Tebakoonigan, “une mesure.” 
3Me. H. Coll., II, 298. 
4 Mass. H. C., 3d ser., VI, 120. 
5 Willis’ Hist. Portland, Index. 
‘Me. Hist. Col., Vol. IIT, 329, printed Popple. He held an office in the Plantation Office, Whitehall, London. — 
