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kettle, clothing of black serge, a hat and band, hose and shoes, blue cloth; and using words that 
showed that some Basques of St. John de Luz had been in the neighboring waters before him.! 
NEQUASSET.—Cotton’s vocabulary furnishes nequt-tika as eel. R. Williams supplies mihtuck- 
quash-op, as an eel-pot, the first part of the word denoting the wood of which it is made, and the 
last part its purpose. The similarity of these words to the name of this place may possibly be 
sufficient to warrant their union with the fact of the abundance of this kind of fish at the falls on 
this stream, at the head of the tide, and allow the explanation Pel-Place. 
NEWAGEN.—The name of this cape has been singwarly unfortunate in its orthography, 
appearing as Anawagen, Andaiwagen, Bonawagen, Manawagen, Nawagen, Norwagen, and Caphan-of 
waggan, and several others. This variety creates a difficulty in the interpretation. Under the 
word etroit, Rale gives ooskooaighen. Perhaps the last three syllables enter into this word, which 
will thus represent the Narrows between the southern point of this cape and the adjoining islands. 
It is mentioned by Levett in his account of his voyage along the coast in 1623, who calls it Cape- 
manwagan. Williamson says of the northern part, the island of Cape Newagen (now Southport) 
is separated from Booth-bay, to which it belongs, by a narrow passage for small vessels, called 
Townsend Gut. This description goes far toward warranting the definition of the name here given. 
Off this cape Josselyn says is the place where Captain Smith fished for whales. 
New Mrapows, originally Stevens’ River, named. from a resident onthe south side of Merry- 
meeting Bay, whose house stood near the “ carrying-place,” about 1640 and later. 
OGuNnQuir.—One of the forms of this word, in past days of frequent use, is Negunquit, and this 
suggests that the original was Oonegunquit. The word oonegan means a portage, carrying-place, aud 
the termination quit denotes locality. The name Portage-place, or the Portage, conveys a proper 
designation of a singular ridge of beach-stones thrown up by the action of the ocean near the 
entrance of a short arm of the sea, to the height of about twenty feet, across which a carriage-road 
now passes. 
OSSIPER, from skoidss, pines, and sépé river, Pine River, changed from k’was by dropping the 
first two letters. / 
PASSAQASSAWAKBAG.—One interpretation of this word is the Ghost-Place, or Place of Sights, 
and the word negudssankamacan, I see him,’ may be cited in its favor. Another explanation takes 
the word Passagus,’ sturgeon, from the St. John’s dialect. 
PASSAMAQUODDY.—The various orthographies of the name of this bay receive the like inter- 
pretation. A Micmac Indian employed by the missionary at Hantsport, Nova Scotia, in translating 
the gospels, gave the word Pestumacadic.2 Another form is the Etchemin, Pascatumacadie® The 
uniform translation is Pollock-plenty-place ; or, as given by an Indian chief, Pollock-catch-em-good- 
many. The abundance of this kind of fish in this bay still continues. 
PEMAQUID.—This name of a harbor and river, with the adjoining territory, appears as early 
as 1607, in the journal of the Popham colony during its continuance at the mouth of the Kennebec. 
It has been written in many other forms ; but all are easily resolvable into this. It is compounded 
of pemi, crooked or winding, ahki, land, place, and it, a locative; pem-ahk-it, representing At the 
Crooked River, and describing the boundaries of the water, in its tidal portion, by the shores rather 
than the water itself Its characteristic ‘ crooked” is marked in contrast with the neighboring 
Jolu’s Bay, which goes out straight to the ocean. In pronunciation the sound of uw or vw has been 
introduced for smoothness. It has been given as Pemacquid, Pemakuit, and by the Penobscot Indi- 
ans is called Pemahhkiweédue. 
The history of this place can be given only in the merest outlinein a brief note, and need not 
be attempted, as it is to be furnished in an ample volume." 
1 Archer and Brereton’s Relations, 3d ser., Mass. H. Coll., pp. 73, 85, 86. 
2This last appears in Mason’s Will, Williamson; I, 267. Hazard, I, 335, 393. 
3 Me. H. Coll., IT, 86. 
4 Hist. Me., I, 55. 
5 Josselyn’s Two Voyages, 3d ser., Mass. H. Coll., IIT, 347. 
6 Rale, ‘ Viser.” 7 Pahsukus, Barratt’sL ist. 
8 Pestum, pollock, acadie, place of plenty. 
® Pascatum, pollock. Barratt’s pamphlet, taken from Nicola Tenesles. Pascodum is given by Sabine. 
‘0 By Professor John Johnston, LL, D., of the college at Middletown, Connecticut, a native of Pemaquid, now em- 
braced in the town of Bristol. 
