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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. | ||
| − | I am also equally ready to tie up the the Natick dialect | + | I am also equally ready to tie up the the Natick dialect with the western Maine Indians as I do not think the more or less noble Piscataqua would sever the two dialects very perceptibly. |
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| + | Keep this open for further meanderings from one of the neophytes. We may be able to "burst forth" with a real name for this river which takes account of its topographical features. | ||
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| + | Yours sincerely | ||
| + | Charles E. Banks [Signature] | ||
Latest revision as of 19:17, 12 July 2018
�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 with the western Maine Indians as I do not think the more or less noble Piscataqua would sever the two dialects very perceptibly.
Keep this open for further meanderings from one of the neophytes. We may be able to "burst forth" with a real name for this river which takes account of its topographical features.
Yours sincerely Charles E. Banks [Signature]