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BAKER.] 395 Taa— Tag. 



Taapkuk; Eskimo village (population 42 in 1880), at Cape Espenberg, Kotzebue 

 sound. Eskimo name, from Petrof, 1880, who writes it Ta-apkuk. 



Table; island, in Hood bay, Admiralty island, Alexander archipelago. So named 

 by Meade in 1869. 



Table; mountain (6,000 feet high), on the headwaters of the Koyukuk river, in 

 latitude 68°. Descriptive name, given by Sehrader in 1899. 



Tachat; river, tributary to the Kuskokwim, from the north, near latitude 63°. 

 Native name, from Spurr and Post, 1898, who wrote it Tachatna, i. e., 

 Tachat river. 



Tacliik, bay; see Pavlof. 



Tachilni; cape, the eastern point of entrance to Morzhovoi bay, on the southern 

 shore of Alaska peninsula, near its western end. Named Tochilnoi 

 (grinding to an edge, sharpening, whetting) by Tebenkof in 1849. Its 

 Aleut name according to Lutke (p. 272) who obtained it from Kudiakof, 

 1791, is Animatchoutehkok. 



Tachilni; mountains, between Cold and Morzhovoi bays, at western end of Alaska 

 peninsula. Named Tachelhey by the Fish Commission, in 1888, the name 

 being obviously derived from Cape Tachilni, near by. Tebenkof calls the 

 cape Tochilnoi. It has been given Tachilnoi by Dall, Tachelhey by the 

 Fish Commission, and Tachethey by the Coast Survey. 



Tachkinach, island; see Simeonof. 



TachsMlik, creek; see Takshilik. 



Tachti, island; see Takli. 



Tacoii, harbor; see Taku. 



Tuddlskey, harbor; see Kaigani and South. 



Tadluk; cape, on the southern shore of Atka island, middle Aleutians. Native 

 name, from Tebenkof, 1849. 



Tadrandike, river; see Chandlar. 



Tag; rock or rocky islet, one of the Delarof islands, near western end of the 

 Andreanof group, middle Aleutians. Aleut name, from Tebenkof, who 

 writes it Tagachalugis, or, as we may divide it, Ta-gach-al-u-gis. This 

 has been written Tagatchalgise by the Hydrographic Office and Tagachal- 

 gise by the Coast Survey. This large name of a small feature I have here 

 curtailed to Tag. 



Tagadak; islet, east of Adak, and south of Great Sitkin, Andreanof group, middle 

 Aleutians. Aleut name, from Tebenkof, 1849. Tagadak is Aleut for new, 

 fresh, etc. Has also been written Tagadakh. 



Tagalak; islaml, between Atka and Great Sitkin, middle Aleutians. Native name, 

 from Billings's track chart 1790-92. ( Not to be confounded with Tagadak, 

 a small island about 10 miles west of this one. ) Has also been written 

 Tagalakh. 



Tagamnk, islet; see Chernabura. 



TagJt'uiak, island; see Simeonof. 



Tagish; lake and post-office, east of Bennett lake, Yukon district, Canada. Named 

 Bove, in 1883, by Schwatka, after Lieutenant Bove, of the Italian navy, 

 but by Dr. Dawson called Tagish. The native name, according to Ogilvie, 

 is Takone. The above name, Tagish, has been adopted by the Canadian 

 Board on Geographic Names. 



Tagumanik; creek, tributary to the eastern part of Norton sound. Native name, 

 from the Western Union Telegraph Expedition map of 1867. 



Taguta. Raymond, 1869, shows a native village on the north bank of the Yukon, 

 about 15 miles' below the mouth of the Kaiyuh riyer, called Tagutakaka, 

 which appears to be intended for Taguta-kakat, i. e., Taguta river. 

 Neither name nor village appears on recent maps. 



