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�moral [word underlined] quality rather than a physical one. Also I concede that it refers to a spot,[word underlined] not the whole peninsula. The reference in the last paragraph- about another possible meaning-is dealt with in an article on Levett's settlement in Portland harbor [here Banks includes a drawing of Portland and its harbor, with Back Cove, Cape Elizabeth, Geo. Cleeves House, and Machingon Point (N.E. from Cleeves) identified] and the idea that a white man's "camp" or house was built on that point before 1623 and to the Indians a house such as the English would construct was a "great[word underlined twice] camp" or (artificial) enclosure, as compared with their wigwams. Whether they would esteem it a bad[word underlined] camp is of course debatable. It would be bad for toting round, but good in the sense of permanency - certainly "great" in size, and I feel rather comfortably lodged in the view that "Mashi"gonne, the local pronunciation is derived from Massa or its variant forms, meaning great.