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The Saco is a narrow river and on Champlain's map of 1604-13 shows what one would expect -- a small low island at its mouth with the soundings decreased all around it -- 6 fathoms inside it, where he places a ship, and running out to sea 4-5-6-7-8-9 fathoms. It evidently was a bar or its equivalent at one time. I am prepared to look with a kindly eye on your suggestion of a missing M in its "innards" to make Sawagua(m)tuck -- freely, "at the river with a gravel bar". It is difficult for me to accept "at The[underlined] outlet" -- though the evidence marshalled by you seems to support it. Saco was not THE[capitalized] River of Maine. | The Saco is a narrow river and on Champlain's map of 1604-13 shows what one would expect -- a small low island at its mouth with the soundings decreased all around it -- 6 fathoms inside it, where he places a ship, and running out to sea 4-5-6-7-8-9 fathoms. It evidently was a bar or its equivalent at one time. I am prepared to look with a kindly eye on your suggestion of a missing M in its "innards" to make Sawagua(m)tuck -- freely, "at the river with a gravel bar". It is difficult for me to accept "at The[underlined] outlet" -- though the evidence marshalled by you seems to support it. Saco was not THE[capitalized] River of Maine. | ||
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�I was King for a day I would like to lift that "weque" out of Stonington and see how it would look in Saco as
MAS[SA-WEQUE-TUCK
I haven't had a chance to look it up as a real word -- it came out of a copy of a copy of a place in rather illegible writing.
The Saco is a narrow river and on Champlain's map of 1604-13 shows what one would expect -- a small low island at its mouth with the soundings decreased all around it -- 6 fathoms inside it, where he places a ship, and running out to sea 4-5-6-7-8-9 fathoms. It evidently was a bar or its equivalent at one time. I am prepared to look with a kindly eye on your suggestion of a missing M in its "innards" to make Sawagua(m)tuck -- freely, "at the river with a gravel bar". It is difficult for me to accept "at The[underlined] outlet" -- though the evidence marshalled by you seems to support it. Saco was not THE[capitalized] River of Maine.
I am also equally ready to tie up the the Natick dialect