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�it, and is in no sense, topographically, a great ridge - or an one suggestion was like a moose back - okun, ikun etc. If so there are a thousand "great ridge places". In other words it doesn't describe anything in particular. There is a profile of the [?] Neck (neck is underscored) and was first called in English in 1636. (hand drawing of mountain ridge contrasted with horizon) It is a peninsula in the hills about 150 feet high - not much of a ridge and not as high as a hill three miles inland. The earliest description usually refer to the point (point is underscored) of a [?] called [?] - a restricted area.

but that is not what I started to say - except in so far as it relates to Indian place names. It seems to me that it is important to settle - once for all - the name of [?]. It ought to answer some phases of the Pemaquid problem as it was the [?]. I am not sure that I ever heard of or saw a definition. Ida Sedgwick Proper ([?]) has just published a very careful study of the early history of the island - from [?] [?] to the Fall of [?], and ducks the question. Says it has never been studies. If you have done so it is unknown to me. Its a fool rushing in where angels fear to tread I will start something like [?] - that it should be [?] early spellings justify their view. When follows the (h)egan which appears in many Maine names - [?], [?], [?]. It occurs elsewhere in Newfoundland as [?] or Martha's Vineyard. I suggest it means - an [?] place, ([?}) like a [?], fro, Ighan or Egon. The prefix "Mun" I suggest