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northeast of Moosehead lake, and sifrnifies "at the bifz; outlet," 

 Ktc'hi-sankuk. 



Mount Katahdiu, on Penobscot river, thoii<:;h its name is worded in thr 

 Penobscot dialect, may be mentioned here as signifying "large moun- 

 tain;" tiie syllable kt- is equivalent to ktchi, " large, great, big; " 

 ad'ne, ad'na, is "mountain." Tlie Penobsc'ot Indians ])ronounce it 

 Kta'd'n [a short) ; the PassaniaquodJies, Ktad'n {n long). 



Norumbega is the alleged name of a river and .sf)me ancient villages or 

 Indian "cities" in Maine, spelled in many diffiirent ways, l>ut never 

 located with any deirree of certainty. The name does not stand for 

 any Indian settlement, but is a term of the Abnaki languages, which 

 in Penobscot sounds nalambigi, in Passamaquoddy nalabegik — both 

 referring to the " still, (luiet " (nala-) stretch of a river between two 

 rlHles, lapids, or cascades ; -b.%ik, for nip:>gik, means "at the water." 

 On tiie larger rivers and watercourses of Maine ten to twenty of these 

 "still water stretches " may occur on each ; lience the imposi-ibility 

 of determining the sites meant by the old authors speaking of these 

 localities. Naraidxnuk, now Norridgewok, on middle Penoi)scot river, 

 has the same meaning. 



Oak bay, a large inlet of St Croix river, east of the city of Calais, i.« 

 named Wekw/iyik — "at the head of the bay." 



Passamaquoddy bay, according to its orthography now current, means 

 the bay where pollock is numerous or plentiful. Tlie English spell- 

 ing of the name is not quite correct, for the Indians pronounce it 

 Peskcdemakadi pekudebegek. Peskedem is the pollock-fish or " skip- 

 per," "jumper ;" called so from its habit of skiiiping above the sur- 

 face of the water and falling into it again ; -kadi, -akadi is a suttix, 

 marking plenty or abundance of the ol)ject in question. (Cf tlie name 

 Acadia, derived from this ending.) There are several places on the 

 shores of this bay especially favorable for the catch of this food-fish, 

 like East Quoddy head, etc, as mentioned previously in this article. 

 Quoddy, tlie abbreviated name now given to a hotel in Eastport, 

 should be spelt : Kadi or Akadi, for there is no w-sound in this Indian 

 term, and it would be better to write the name of the bay, if scientilic 

 accuracy is desired, " Peskedemakadi bay." 



Pembroke lake, a long water sheet, stretching from northwest to south- 

 east, is in Indian fmnakwan agum, or " the lake where sweet tree- 

 sap is obtained." Makwan, or "sAveet," stands for the liquid sugar 

 running from the sugar maple in .season. Agum means " lake." 



Pleasant point, Indian village on the western shore of 8t Croi.v river, is 

 called .^iba-ik, Sib.lyik: "at the water- passage, on the thoroughfare 

 for ships or canoes," which refers to the sites just south of the 

 " point." 



Princeton, a village on the Kennebasis river, .south shore (an atliuent of 

 the St Croix river from the west), is called Mdakmfguk, "on the 

 rising soil ; " from mda, " high, rising," and kmi'gu, an abbreviation 

 of ktakmigu, " land, soil, territory." 



Red Beach, on. west shore of lower St Croix river, Calais township, 

 al)ov',' Robbiuston, is named Mekwamkcs'k, "at the small red 



