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��Moosilauke.

��with the letter I thrown in for the sake of the sound, and means Bald Place."

The first to adopt Potter's Moosi- lauke that we have found was Cool- edge and Mansfield's History and De- scription of New England, 18G0; then the New Hampshire Statesman, 1861 ; the Boston Herald, July, 1867 ; J. W. Meader's Merrimack River, 1869 ; History of Warren, 1870 ; and White Mountains in Winter, 1871.

Since 1871, nine out of every ten of the writers who have mentioned the mountain have written it Moosilauke, and not Moosehillock. Both are good names, and one can use either of them as he pleases ; or, if he wishes, can take his choice from the four others, — Mooselock, Mooshelock, Moose Hillock, and Moose-hillock. We prefer Moosilauke as the most euphonious, — the most likely to be the one the Indians used, and no chance to make an unsightly division of it. Still there is a grandeur in the word Moosehillock. We are not cap- tious about which spelling is used, and are wholly unlike Mr. S. A. Drake, the author. He seems to be very tenacious for the spelling Moose- hil-lock, and wholly opposed to that of Moo-sil-auke. He boldly exclaims in his *•' Heart of the White Moun- tains," Boston, 1881, page 267, — " Moosilauke : this orthography is of recent adoption. By recent, I mean within thirty years. Before that it was ahvays Moosehillock" — a vei-y accurate statement, as we have seen !

A large number of maps, showing parts of New Hampshire, were pub- lished prior to Holland's, 1784. Thos. Jeffrey, "■ geographer to His Royal

the State Library. •
 * Some half a dozen of Jeffrey's and Blanchard

��Highness, the Prince of Wales, near Charing Cross," London, 1755, pub- lished the first one we have met. It was from " Surveys of Mitchell and Hazzen, 1750, especially this last." Several editions of it were issued, no two alike. Joseph Blanchard and Samuel Langdon — afterwards presi- dent of Harvard college — published a map of the state in 1761. This also had several editions.* But no one of them has Moosilauke upon it, unless Jackoyway's hill, a little east of Con- necticut river, Jeffrey's map, 1755, is meant for it. But those wiio have given some attention to the subject are of the opinion that Jackoyway, Coraway, and Chocorua are identical names of the same mountain, mean- ing Bear mountain, — the same as Kineo mountain in Ellsworth, and Kunkanowet hills in Dunbarton and Weare, mean Bear mountain or Bear hills, or the " place of bears," all these names being derived (the same as the name of the chief Passacona- way) from kunnaivai/, a bear.

Four large streams have their source near the high crest of Moosil- auke. They are Moosilauke river, the Wild Ammonoosuc or Swiftwater, the Oliverian, and the Baker. Some of these have had as many names and changes of names as Moosilauke.

2. Moosilauke Riveu.

It rises on the north-east sloi)e of Mt. Blue, — the name of Moosilauke's blue dome, — and its first mile is a series of glissading cascades. Near its junction with the Pemigewasset, it forms Moosilauke basin, and across-a-

& Lan^don's maps are in the collection of maps in

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