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NOMENCLATURE IN LOUISIANA. 
Continued from page 610. 
known as the Bag-o’-Nails Inn, whose name 
was a puzzle to every one, until an antiquary 
had one of the old signs washed and cleaned, 
when it betrayed the fact that Bag-o’-Nails was 
simply a corruption of Bacchanals. Equally 
ludicrous misnomers exist by the hundred in 
Louisiana. The first French governor of the 
colony is the victim of one of them. One of 
the passes at the mouth of the Mississippi was 
named in his honor Passe de Sauvolle. The 
Creoles wore it down in time to Passe Cheval 
(“Horse Pass”), and many of the later maps 
have actually translated it. It might be men¬ 
tioned, by the by, that the early discoverers and 
explorers of Louisiana have been as badly 
treated geographically as Columbus. Their 
names were given to lakes and rivers, but they 
have all, like Sauvolle, been robbed of these 
honors. The Iberville River has become the 
Amite; Bienville Island, Horn Island, and the 
pass named in honor of Serigny has dropped 
that title and become simply South Pass, being 
that particular one in which the jetties are situ¬ 
ated and through which all the icommerce of 
New Orleans passes. The name of Serigny has 
not been heard for almost a century. 
Other mistakes like that of Horse Pass are 
the change of Ouiski River, in Calcasieu to 
“Whisky.” Bogue Chitto, or “Big Bayou,” into 
Boggy Chitto, and Barbonne, in Lafayette, to 
Barebones. Carencro, in the same parish, is 
pronounced carrion crow by everybody, and 
so spelled by many. At the mouth of the river 
is a barren, desolate mud-lump, or island, called 
Garden Island. No garden has ever been there 
or ever will be; the true name is Gordon’s 
Island, after an ancient bar pilot. Petit Pois 
Island, so named by Bienville, is no longer such 
on any map, being either Petit Bois (“Little 
Wood”), simply Boy’s Island, or Pea Island. 
Ninety-nine people out of a hundred would 
declare that the island of Belle Isle, rising out 
of the gulf marshes—it is no island at all, since 
it is surrounded by land on all sides—-was noth¬ 
ing but “Beautiful Island,” instead of being named 
in honor of M. de Belle Isle, who was. ship¬ 
wrecked there and remained a prisoner in the 
hands of the Attakapas Indians for many years. 
Nor is Grand Gulf, on the Mississippi, a gulf, 
but simply Grand Golphe, “Big Whirlpool,” for 
a whirlpool once existed in the river near there. 
A somewhat similar mistake, which has deceived 
nearly everybody, gives the name to a town in 
Iberville parish, known as Bayou Goula. Every 
one naturally believes that it is so called, like 
Bayou Sara, in West Feliciana, from the bayou 
or stream on which it is situated; but it so 
happens that it is situated on no bayou at all. 
and ought to be spelled Bayagoula, being named 
after a powerful Indian tribe that formerly in¬ 
habited that portion of the State. Still more 
absurd is the mistake made by some over-smart 
fellow, who converted Pass-a-Loutre into Pass 
a l’Outre, the apostrophe changing Otter Pass 
into “the Pass of the Beyond;” and yet nine 
maps out of ten follow this error. 
The custom of particularizing a river or lake 
as “the river,” “the lake,” instead of naming it, 
is common everywhere, and nowhere more so 
than in a new country. The inhabitants of the 
Mississippi Valley, for instance, never .refer to 
“The Father of Waters” as the Mississippi. To 
them it is simply “the river,” just as suburban 
New Yorkers speak of going to “the city” when 
on their way to Manhattan Island. Descriptive 
names like these are common throughout this 
country. Detroit, for instance, is only “the 
strait” after all. There are no less than three 
straits, or as they are generally called in 
Louisiana, “passes,” similarly nameless, or 
rather which have lost the main portion of their 
names. The people of Louisiana call the 
straits which connect lakes Borgne and Pont- 
chartrain “the Rigolets,” which means simply 
“the straits,” or “passage.” The early ex¬ 
plorers forgot to give a name to this place, and 
simply dotted it down on their map as “les 
rigolets on passaient les chaloupes”—“the pas¬ 
sage through which the ship’s boats passed” 
Nobody ever took the trouble to baptize this 
pass, and this descriptive title clings to it. Yet 
