Wassataquoik (or -cook), Salmon River, East Branch. (v. Willis.)

Pemoymenuk, Amelanchier berries, " Pemouaimin, nak, a black fruit. Rale." Has it not here the

plural ending?

Sheepnoc, Lilium Canadense bulbs. white, larger than penak." Rale.

Sipen, nak,

Paytgumkiss, Petticoat (where a small river comes into the Penobscot below Nickatow).

Burntibus, a lake-like reach in the Penobscot.

Polis.

Passadumkeag, "where the water falls into the Penobscot above the falls." (Williamson.) Paüsidaükioui is, au dessus de la montagne. Rale.

Olarmon, or larmon, (Polis) red paint. "Vermilion, paint, Ouramaü.” Rale.

Sunkhaze, "See canoe come out; ho, see 'em stream." (Polis.) The mouth of a river, according to Rale, is Saughedétegoue. The place where one stream empties into another, thus & is sauktaüoui. (v. Willis.)

Tomhegan Br. (at Moosehead). "Hatchet, temahigan." Rale.

Nickatow, "Nicketaoutegué, or Niketoutegoue, rivière qui fourche." Rale.

2. From WILLIAM WILLIS, on the Language of the Abnaquies, Maine Hist. Coll., Vol. IV.

Abalajako-megus (river near Ktaadn).

Aitteon (name of a pond and sachem).

Apmogenegamook (name of a lake).

Allagash (a bark camp). Sockbasin, a Penobscot, told him, "The Indians gave this name to the lake from the fact of their keeping a hunting-camp there.”

Bamonewengamock, head of Allagash, Cross Lake. (Sock

basin.)

Chesuncook, Big Lake. (Sockbasin.)

Caucongamock (a lake).

Ebeeme, mountains that have plums on them. (Sockbasin.)

Ktaadn. Sockbasin pronounces this Ka-tah-din, and said it meant "large mountain or large thing."

Kenduskeag (the place of Eels).

Kineo (flint), mountain on the border, &c.

Metawamkeag, a river with a smooth, gravelly bottom. (Sockbasin.)

Metanawcook.

Millinoket, a lake with many islands in it. (Sockbasin.) Matakeunk (river).

Molunkus (river).

Nicketow, Neccotoh, where two streams meet (“Forks of the Penobscot ").

Negas (Indian village on the Kenduskeag).

Orignal (Montresor's name for Moosehead Lake). Ponguongamook, Allagash, name of a Mohawk Indian

killed there. (Sockbasin.)

Penobscot, Penobskeag, French Pentagoet, &c.

Pougohwaken (Heron Lake).

Pemadumcook (lake).

Passadumkeag, where water goes into the river above falls. (Williamson.)

Ripogenus (river).

Sunkhaze (river), Dead-water.

Souneunk.

Seboomook. Sockbasin says this word means "the shape of a Moose's head, and was given to the lake," &c. Howard says differently.

Seboois, a brook, a small river. (Sockbasin.)
Sebec (river).

Sebago (great water).

Telos (lake).

Telasiuis (lake).

Umbagog (lake), doubled up; so called from its form. (Sockbasin.)

Umbazookskus (lake).

Wassatiquoik, a mountain river. (Sockbasin.)

Judge C. E. Potter of Manchester, New Hampshire, adds in November, 1855:

"Chesuncook. This is formed from Chesunk, or Schunk (a goose), and Auke (a place), and means 'The Goose Place.' Chesunk, or Schunk, is the sound made by the wild geese when flying."

Ktaadn. This is doubtless a corruption of Kees (high), and Auke (a place).

Penobscot, Penapse (stone, rock-place), and Auke (place). Suncook, Goose-place, Schunk-auke.

The Judge says that schoot means to rush, and hence schoodic from this and auke (a place where water rushes), and that schoon means the same; and that the Marblehead people and others have derived the words scoon and scoot from the Indians, and hence schooner; refers to a Mr. Chute.

Beards, growing, for sylvan appear- Chamberlain Farm, the, 303, 327,
ance, 209.