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A third letter in "The Evening Post" (New York), May 

 12, 1902, bears so closely on this subject that it is given 

 here, as follows : 



To the Editor of The Evening Post: 



Sir, — In to-day's Evening Post Mr. Edward M. Hartwell of 

 Boston gives the only correct explanation of the word " moat " as 

 applied to certain brooks at their junction with the Nashua River in 

 Massachusetts. In support of Mr. Hartwell's theory that the New 

 England word is a misapplied technical term, and that " it does not 

 fit the facts given so well as ' mote,' a meeting or meet," I beg to 

 quote the following Swedish words in addition to several English, 

 Norwegian, and Swedish ones cited by Mr. Hartwell. In the county 

 of Wermland, Sweden, there is a place called Amot, situated at the 

 junction of two waters. In the county of Gefleborg, Sweden, there 

 is a place called Amots Bruk, also situated at the junction of two 

 streams. 



There is also a Swedish word moivatten, but not a geographical 

 name, signifying the water which in floodtime flows from a larger 

 stream into a smaller estuary, backing up or meeting the water from 

 the latter. 



" Mote " is perhaps of Saxon derivation, from metan, to meet; mot, 

 a meeting, etc. One finds the same word in the Icelandic : maeta, 

 to meet ; and also in the Dutch : maeten, to meet, and gemot, a 

 meeting. 



Axel C. Hallbeck. 

 New York, May 8. 



SALMON IN THE NASHUA RIVER. 



A salmon weighing 9^ pounds was caught recently in the Nashua 

 River, near the Hollingsworth paper mills, at Groton. It is many 

 years since this species of fish has been found in the neighborhood, 

 but the provision now made for their passage over the dams, in going 

 up stream in the spring of the year, renders it probable that others 

 may be taken. 



"Boston Journal," Sunday, May 12, 1S95. 



From what I have since learned about this fish, I am in- 

 clined to think that it was a carp, and not a salmon. It was 

 caught by a young man named Nutting. 



