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� New London now is. Others will occur to you. I think of others containing the same distinctive idea. Nobska (woods Hole) and Pe-nobsk-ut (Penobscot.) One is a river - another a herdland. Why the dif- ference? Wee have to deal with many sources of error such as the ignorance of the [?] to understanding the language of the Indian. By putting yourself in the shoes of Capt John Smith, as an example, you can see how difficult it would be to know [underlined] what a red-skin meant by a word, or place name, whether it applied to a limited area or its most prominent attri- bute.