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�There is a difference between Sauk[underline] and Sawaca (Sowoco, Sawahqua and Swaca etc) - the difference of one syllable. One element is consistent, the final element, Tuck[underline], Tock[underline] and Dock[underline} and I follow Tooker in using this as the equivalent of a "tidal Stream", (or at least moving water as you give it in the local Penobscot (?) dialect.), a bursting forth of water. I don't for the present consider Champlain's Chouacoit[underline] which is out of the running. It may or may not help. I havn't Champlain by me - this is Sunday! Taking the average of the spellings above given we have a rather uniform base of operations. I assume that the word SWANCKADOCKE [note only letter N is underlined] as printed in York Deeds is an ereror for SWAUCKADOCKE [note only letter U is underlined], a misreading of a lower case U as N. Therefore it seems fair to say that all these writers were putting down Sawackatuck of which variations were Sawaguatuck and Sawahquatuck. Thus there are the following component parts: QUA SA - WA(H) K A - TUCK GUA This may seem that I am about to burst into a new definition - but I am only putting up a possible one - a problem Is there a prefix missing? [MAS]SA-WA(H)QUA-TUCK? I see no objection to the loss of that Indian [illegible} to start the word. There is a middle component. WA(H)QUA which eludes me - The Natick Dictionary gives WEHQUE = End or beginning - as far as, nuts [?] etc. UHQUA = at the point or extremity of etc. Neither of these gives much to go on. It is, to my mind, foolish to say that Saco means