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Correspondence from Charles E. Banks to Fannie Hardy Eckstorm ca. 1915-1930, Part 2
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| − | + | it, and is in no sense, topographically, a great ridge - or as 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 Machigonne Neck (neck is underscored) as it 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 | + | 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 [?] of land called Machigonne - 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 Monhegan. 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 [?] chaos to the Fall of [?], and ducks the question. Says it has never been studied. If you have done so it is unknown to me. AS a fool rushing in where angels fear to tread I will start something in the first place I think the sound value of the first syllable is like O in Son- that it should be Mun-hegan- early spellings justify their view. Then follows the (h)egan which appears in many Maine names - Sebascodegan, Reskohegan, Mach/egon/. It occurs elsewhere in New England as Kepigon on Martha's Vineyard. I suggest it means - an enclosed place, (artificial?) like a palisade, fro, Ighan or Egon. The prefix "Mun" I suggest | |
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it, and is in no sense, topographically, a great ridge - or as 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 Machigonne Neck (neck is underscored) as it 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 [?] of land called Machigonne - 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 Monhegan. 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 [?] chaos to the Fall of [?], and ducks the question. Says it has never been studied. If you have done so it is unknown to me. AS a fool rushing in where angels fear to tread I will start something in the first place I think the sound value of the first syllable is like O in Son- that it should be Mun-hegan- early spellings justify their view. Then follows the (h)egan which appears in many Maine names - Sebascodegan, Reskohegan, Mach/egon/. It occurs elsewhere in New England as Kepigon on Martha's Vineyard. I suggest it means - an enclosed place, (artificial?) like a palisade, fro, Ighan or Egon. The prefix "Mun" I suggest