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remarkable Franquelin-deMeulles map where it bears the Micmac 
name of Kednattequec* It makes a second appearance, without 
*The North Pole Branch 'is called by the Micmacs to-day ICay : dun-at- 
que-gak, (meaning unknown), a word whiich might well be simplified for 
use to Kednegek (g hard and accent upon the last syllable). The name 
North Pole apparently first appears in documents upon Fish s plan of iooo 
and Fi'eeze’s plans of 1881, and Mr. Freeze tells me that he found the 
name in use among lumbermen when he made his surveys and supposed it 
originated in the old pine-timber days from 1840-1860, when much pine 
lumbering was done on the river. It was- very likely named because of its 
