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 SECT. II.] ALGONKIN-LENAPE AND IROQUOIS NATIONS. 31 dialects, belonging indeed to the same stock, but quite distinct from the Algonkin. They are called respectively Skoffies and Sheshatapoosh or Mountainees. The origin of the last name is not known ; but the language is not that of the Tadoussac Montagnars. The vocabularies of both were taken from a na- tive named Gabriel ; and extracts will be found in the annexed comparative vocabularies. The tribe of the Nova Scotia Indians, near Annapolis in the Bay of Fundy, with which the French first became acquaint- ed, was called Souriquois ; and a vocabulary of their language has been preserved by Lescarbot. They are now well known by the name of Micmacs, and inhabited the peninsula of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, several other islands within the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and all the rivers emptying from the west into that Gulf, south of Gaspe. The words in the comparative vocabulary are taken principally from the manuscript of Father Maynard, Missionary at Miramichi during and at the end of the seven years' war. It was obtained in Canada, by the late Enoch Lincoln, Governor of Maine, who permitted me to take copious extracts ; and the original has been placed in my hands by his brother. The words wanted have been chiefly supplied from another manuscript vocabulary in M. Dupon- ceau's collection, taken by Mr. Walter Bromley, a resident of Nova Scotia. When Father Maynard made his submission to the British in 1760, he stated the number of the Micmacs to be three thousand souls.* The French adopted the names given by the Souriquois to the neighbouring Indian tribes. The Etchemins, or " Canoemen," embraced the tribes of the St. John's River, called Ouygoudy by Champlain, and of Passamaquoddy Bay ; and the name ex- tended thence westwardly along the seashore as far at least as Mount Desert Island. The Island of St. Croix, where De Monts made a temporary settlement, has been recognised to be that now called Boon Island, which lies near the entrance of the Schoodick River above St. Andrew's. The river itself is always called River of the Etchemins by Champlain, who ac- companied De Monts, and explored, in the year 1605, the sea- coast from the Bay of Fundy to Martha's Vineyard. The Indians west of Kennebec River, beginning at Choua- coet, and thence westwardly as far as Cape Cod, were called
 * 1 Mass. Hist. Coll. Vol. x. p. 115. He is there called Manach.