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ascendeney, has prevailed to the present day. The family name of “ Cotter” is found there still. 
The immense heaps, or rather hills, of oyster-shells, showing the action of fire, are a proof of the 
former abundance of this bi-valve in this stream, and the long continued visits or permanent 
dwelling of the Indians on both its banks. In Jackson’s Geological Report the quantity is esti- 
mated at 44,906,400 cubie feet of shells, capable of producing 10,000,000 casks of lime of the usual 
dimensions. ; 
DAMASCOVE, Damarin’s Cove, or Damaris Cove, could hardly have been derived from Dama- 
ris-cotta, for the name “ Damarill’s Isles” is found in John Smith, (1614,) and suggests that these 
names had a different origin. The word seems to have included if not describing Pemaquid Bay. 
DovAQUET.—See JORDAN’S RIVER. 
EBENECOOK, now the name of a harbor northwest of Southport Island, was probably the name 
of the island itself. Ifit were Hbemcécook, and perhaps it was, it would mean High-bush-cranberry-place. 
Ibeménécook means Choke-cherry-place. Another explanation may be suggested from the Pas- 
samaquoddy word munigu, an island, and ook, place, making Muniquook, or, as otherwise, Menikik, 
changing mto b. Thus it would be Beénecook, ‘ The Island,” easily changed to the present form. 
EGGEMOGGIN, Ldgmoggin, Hdgmorragen.—aA reach between Deer Island and the towns of Sedg- 
wick and Brooklin. The Indian word dgdmoggin, snow-shoes, may be the correct explanation of this 
name, having some allusion to this ‘‘ Reach” which is not now known. 
FRENCHMAN’S Bay derived its name from the settlements on the grants made on its borders, 
to Mons. Cadillac, from Louis XIV, in 1691, to confirm the possession of what was claimed to be 
Acadia. His granddaughter, Madame Gregoire, in 1787, acquired from Massachusetts a partial con- 
firmation of the original concession. 
HARRISEEKET was the name of Freeport; probably denoting the broad part of the river 
nearest Casco Bay. The word hallaseget means to cut with a knife, and is used with regard to cut 
ting fish. An Indian explains it as Dress-fish-place. 
HIPPocrAss, improperly Hypocrites, “spiced-wine,”! a name probably given to this island by 
jolly seamen. ; 
Hockxomock.—A story of the Indian times, connected with this headland, implies that the word 
means “devil.” But the dialectic names for the “ evil spirit” were matsi-niwesko, and matta-dewando, 
contracted to tanto. In the Massachusetts language, or rather dialect, it was hobomock. The pres- 
enf word should be written Honchkamock, from honck, a goose, am euphonie, (unless it is an abbre- 
viation of namds, fish,) and ock, place. As applied to the water, as would be natural, it is the 
equivalent of Wild-Goose-Bay. This is one of the words that show how the Massachusetts dialect, 
in the word honck, had an influence in Maine. Where in the Norridgewock for goose was awérér, in 
the Penobscot it is wompato, and in Etchemin, awahbegeel. 
Hog.—The name of an island in Portland Harbor, shortened from quohog, or, as given in 
Webster’s Dictionary, quahaug, the round clam. The word is often pronounced co-hog. In Massa- 
chusetts it was written quauhaug, and in Narraganset po quau-hock. Rale wrote pe-kwa-hak, which 
he applies to oysters. The original word is thought to mean ‘a tightly closed shell.” 
When Christopher Levett visited the waters now known as Portland Harbor, in 1623, he 
reported it as “ Quack,” probably with the broad sound of the vowel, and gave the place the name 
of York, where he intended to found a city.2 One acquainted with the local pronunciation can 
easily see how the change was made from the original Indian word. 
HUNNIWELL’S Pornt.—The name of the person whose name is attached to the point of land 
between Atkins’ Bay and the ocean, at the mouth of the Kennebec, appears in a document dated 
May 18, 1672.5 The place where his house stood is indicated on a pen-drawn map among the 
Pejepscot Papers.t| The cellar still remains. 
IsLE AU HAut.—This mountainous island received its descriptive name from Champlain, in 
1605, when, with De Monts, he coasted from the St. Croix to Cape Cod. It has a small settlement 
‘Webster’s Dict. Williamson’s Hist., I, 56. 
2 Me. Hist. Coll., II, p. 84. Willis’ Portland, p. 26. 
° Me. Hist. Coll., V, 240. His name is there signed Ambrose Honeywell. His house was standing in 1731, owned by 
J. Lewis. 
‘Vol. 6, Map 52." 
