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447 Dec. 5 / 34

Dear Mrs Eckstorm,

Am glad to hear. That Barkahegan relation is interesting. The Mattanawcook idea is distressing, as starting up a third claimant in the case. You see, I was perfectly [one underlined] satisfied with the little cut-off islands as the basis till I got to Lincoln. Then Hubbard's meaning is a fourth. I've no doubt some of the old words in common use have gone out & equivalents come in, as apparently is Agamenticus, which no Indian I have put it to has made anything at all of. The present description would be from another radical. Hereabouts & southward we get two forms for that island case. The usual one is chip- or kip-. Shut off, plugged. The other form is in pem-, like pemaquid & pamunkeg.

Your meaning for Agamenticus is most reasonable, to me. Since writing last I have been playing with the harbor idea,