Section II, 1912                                     [179]                                         Trans. K. S. C.
 

An  Organization  of the  Scientific   Investigation  of the Indian Flace-
nomenclatw^e of the Maritime Provinces of Canada.

(Second Paper).

By W. F. Ganong, M.A., Ph.D.

Read by Title, May 15, 1912.

This paper is identical in aim and method with its predecessor,
which was published in the preceding volume of these Transactions.
In brief, I aim to apply the principles of exact scientific analysis to a'
subject which is at one and the same time unusually interesting and
remarkably  encumbered  with  doubt  and  error.    This  comparative,
method, of which the details were explained in the introduction to the;
preceding paper, is elucidating remarkably tiie problems of the subject,.
as the present contribution will further illustrate.

For convenience of reference I may add that the former paper
thus treated the names Oromocto, Magaguadavic, Upsalquitch, and.
Manan, and some related words involving the same-roots. In the present
paper I have carried out more fully the discussion of the: different
names having identical roots, especially in the case of Kouchibouguac,
Anagance ancl Wagan, thus giving greater prominence to the extinct
naraes, which can be restored to great advantage for literary or other
purposes.                                                                              ::   ..

It only remains to add that in the matter of pronunciation, I.
have myself made use only of the ordinary English sounds of the-
letters. Rand in his Reader and two Dictionaries uses exactly the same
sounds and signs which are employed in English Dictionaries for ex-',
plaining the pronunciation, excepting that in his Micmac-English Dic-^
tionary his editor uses the letters tc to express the soft s<)Uiid of ch (as..'
in church). Gatschet and M. Chamberlain both use the standard*'
alphabet of philologists, in which the vowels are sounded fbr the most^
part in the continental manner.

Nepisignit.

Location and Application.—The name of a large River in New Brunsv/ick.
flowing into the southernmost bend of Bay Chaleur from the south and-west: also;
the Bay forming the bight of Bay Chaleur into which the river empties: also some«
small Lakes at the source of the river: also a very small Brook entering the river-
from the south about one-third of the way from mouth to source:* a>lso formerly

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