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Lake.” — Pammadumcook , Joe thought, meant the Lake 
with Gravelly Bottom or Bed. — Kenduskeag , Tahmunt 
concluded at last, after asking if birches went up it, for he 
said that he was not much acquainted with it, meant some¬ 
thing like this : “ You go up Penobscot till you come to 
Kenduskeag , and you go by, you don’t turn up there. 
That is Kenduskeag .” (?) Another Indian, however, 
who knew the river better, told us afterward that it 
meant Little Eel Biver. -— Mattawamkeag was a place 
where two rivers meet. (?) — Penobscot was Pocky 
River. One writer says, that this was “ originally the 
name of only a section of the main channel, from the 
head of the tide-water to a short distance above Old- 
town.” 
A very intelligent Indian, whom we afterward met, 
son-in-law of Neptune, gave us also these other defi¬ 
nitions : — Umbazookskus , Meadow Stream; Millinokety 
Place of Islands; Aboljacarmegus y Smooth-Ledge Falls 
(and Dead-Water); Aboljacarmeguscook , the stream 
emptying in; (the last was the word he gave when I 
asked about Aboljacknagesic , which he did not recog¬ 
nize ;) Mattahumkeag , Sand-Creek Pond; Piscataquis , 
Branch of a River. 
I asked our hosts what Muslcetaquid, the Indian name 
of Concord, Massachusetts, meant; but they changed it 
to Musketicook , and repeated that, and Tahmunt said that 
it meant Dead Stream, which is probably true. Cook 
appears to mean stream, and perhaps quid signifies the 
place or ground. When I asked the meaning of the 
names of two of our hills, they answered that they were 
another language. As Tahmunt said that he traded at 
Quebec, my companion inquired the meaning of the word 
Quebec , about which there has been so much question. 
