2 FOKEST LIFE IN ACADIE. 



Maine."^^ The peninsula of Nova Scotia was, however, 

 Acadie proper, and herein was laid the scene of the 

 expulsion of the French neutrals from their settlements 

 by the shores of Minas Basin and elsewhere — an event 

 round which has centred so much misconceived sym- 

 pathy of authors and poets, but which has since been 

 shown to have been a most justifiable and necessary 



* Having had access since these lines were written to Dr. Dawson's 

 second edition of "Acadian Geology," recently published by Macmillan 

 and Co., I was at once struck with the author's account of the derivation 

 of the term " Acadie," which he has given in language so similar to my 

 own (even to instancing the Indian name of the same river), that I think 

 it but just to notice this fact — his work being produced some time prior to 

 my own. From this standard work on the Geology of the British Pro- 

 vinces, I will also quote a few passages in further exemplification of the 

 subject. 



The author is informed by the Eev. Mr. Rand, the zealous Indian Mis- 

 sionary of the Acadian Indians, who has made their ways and language his 

 whole study for a long period of years, and translated into their tongue the 

 greater portion of Scripture, that " the word in its original form is Kady 

 or Cadie, and that it is equivalent to region, field, ground, land, or place, 

 but that when joined to an adjective, or to a noun with the force of an 

 adjective, it denotes that the place referred to is the appropriate or special 

 place of the object expressed by the noun or noun-adjective. Now in 

 Micmac, adjectives of this kind are formed by suffixing ' a ' or ' wa ' to 

 the noun. Thus Segubbun is a ground-nut ; Segubbuna, of or relating to 

 ground-nuts ; and Segubbuna-Kaddy is the place or region of ground-nuts, 

 or the place in which these are to be found in abundance." 



As further examples of this common termination of the old Indian 

 names of places. Dr. Dawson gives the following : — 



Soona-Kaddy (Sunacadie). Place of cranberries. 



Kata-Kaddy. Eel-ground. 



TuUuk-Kaddy (Tracadie). Probably place of residence ; dwelling place. 



Buna-Kaddy (Bunacadie, or Benacadie). Is the place of bringing forth ; 

 a place resorted to by the moose at the calving-time. 



Segoonuma-Kaddy. Place of Gaspereaux ; Gaspereaux or Alewife river. 



Again, " Quodiah or Codiah is merely a modification of Kaddy in the 

 language of the Maliceets " (a neighbouring tribe dwelling in New Bruns- 

 wick, principally on the banks of the St. John), " and replacing the other 

 form in certain compounds. Thus Nooda-Kwoddy (Noodiquoddy or 

 Winchelsea Harbour) is a place of seals, or, more literally, place of 

 seal-hunting. Pestumoo-Kwoddy (Passamaquoddy), Pollock-ground, &c. 

 &c." 



