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on the northeastern side, and a few scattered houses in other parts. The old French mode of 
writing the last word was “hault.” This form appears in the present usage of the residents in 
that region, who call it “The Isle of Holt.” Williamson recognizes the same form. The Indian 
name, Soolécook, is translated Shell Place. Smith noticed this mountain-island as one of “the 
remarkablest” landmarks, and wrote, “The highest isle is Sorico, in the bay of Penobscot.”' The 
word is the same with the one given above, with a dialectic change by the Coast Indians of 1 to r. 
With the proper termination if would be Soricoke or Soricook. 
IsLESBoRO’.—Of this the Indian name is Betowbagook, which denotes its position between two 
channels. 
JEREMISQUAM.—The Indians sometimes had English names giveu them by the early settlers 
and missionaries. In this region there were Sheepscot Jolin, Robin Hood, (Darumkin,) Daniel 
Robins, (Ninemewet.) This name marks the name of one who bore that of the melancholy prophet, 
with the word wigwam, house, shortened by the English comers to guam, and then softened to its 
present form. Jeremys-House in this new mode was made to extend its name to all of Westport. 
JORDAN'S RIVER, north of Mount Desert, and connected with Frenchman’s Bay, was originally 
Douaquet, of which the meaning is not ascertained. - 
KeEBeEc is the same as Quebee, the French form of the word, meaning narrows” Here it 
denotes the passage, where the Lower Kennebec leaves Merrymeeting Bay, called “The Chops.” 
This name appears on a pen-sketched map, made about 1690, preserved in the archives of Con- 
necticut, at the State-house at Hartford, and supposed to have been drawn from memory and con- 
jecture by Colonel Church, as an aide to the commissioners of New England in preparing for the 
Indian war about that time. In Perepole’s Deposition,’ referred to under “Androscoggin,” it is 
given Quabacook. This is the same word with the addition of the locative ook. 
KENNEBEC.—Of the thirty different forms in which this name has been written, Aennebeké is 
probably the most correct. Divided into its parts, it will be kenne or quenne, long, nebe, water, ke,* 
from. The meaning is “ From the long water,” that is, * Moose Head Lake,” which on Mitchell’s 
map is called Chenebesic, or Great Lake. Its characteristic is length rather than breadth. 
KENNEBUNK® is of similar origin with the foregoing; kenne, long, abbreviated to ken, nebe, 
water, and unk, a locative, Long-water-place, and pro perly so named, as the opening of the Kenne- 
bunk River is much the largest bay and best harbor for some distance on the coast. 
KowaAuskitcHcook.—There is a difiiculty in knowing what is the pro per word here to denote 
Machias River. It is called Mowasskitchcook, and this would mean Pines- great place, referring to 
the upper falls. Also, with more probable correctness, AKwapskitchcook, which the Indians eall 
Rocky River, to the two falls on which this designation is appropriate. The word penops, rock, will 
furnish a part of the first syllable, Wtche, great, the second, and the last is the locative. Jtvw is 
obscure, perhaps for kooé, pine. But kowopscoo means sharp-rock-ridge. This may refer to the 
sharp rocks in the rapids. - 
LeEJoK is a name appearing on a map in Jeffrey’s collection, near Blue Hill Bay. The name is 
remembered in the neighborhood, and some years ago it was given to a ship built at Ellsworth by 
Mr. Black. In one of the cognate dialects lechawwak denotes a fork. Perhaps it was applied here 
to mark two diverging branches of these waters. Z 
Macnras.—The original word was Machisses, properly Matchesis, from matche, bad, and sis,° 
diminutive. Bad, little, i. e., place or falls ; and was properly applied here, because, by reason of 
1 Description of N. E., 3d ser., Mass. H. Coll., Vol. VI, 120. 
2 Kebec, qui est un détroit de ladite riviere de Canada. Lesearbot, Vol. H, Ch. XIV, p. 307-(327.) 
3 Me. Hist. Coll., Vol. Lil, p. 333. 
4 Rale, p. 554, (18, 19.) He gives, (“noms” p. 493,) Aghenibekki, la viviere Aiimesoukkanti, which is a branch ef the 
Kennebee, taking its name from the falls at Farmington, written on an ancient map in the Pejepscot Collection, Vol. 6, 
Map 50, 1719, Amosequonty ; also elsewhere written in a dozen different ways, of which Amasaconticook is the one to be 
preferred, denoting Fish-plenty Place. The stream is “Sandy River;” in the Indian translation, Penobsquisumquiseboo. 
It is not easy to understand what meaning Rale’s brief note is intended to convey. The present name is like the 
earliest, having been called Kinibequi by Champlain, in 1605-6, and Biard, in his relation in 1611. Perhaps a thorough 
analysis of Aghenibékki would show it to mean a tributary to this main river. 
5 Jn Folsom’s “ Saco,” from an old MS., Kennibonke. 
® Vetromile’s “ Alnambayuli Awikhigan,” 443. 
