Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... Winnicot River, in Rockingham Co., former name of Stratham. Winnicot Falls, in Rockingham Co. Winnicut, in Rockingham Co. "Beautiful place." Winnicouett, tributary of Piscataqua. Vide Winnicot. Winnichahannat. Vide Wecohamet. Winnisquam Lake, in Belknap Co. "Pleasant water." Winona, in New Hampton. Wisconemuck Pond. Wisrisow. Vidc Whisow. Wonolancet Mountain, in Albany. Vide "Proper Names." Wonalancet Mountain, in Albany. Wonomonock. Vide Monomonock. new hampsh1re'S largest lake and its orthography. By Otis G. Hammondj Esq.M.A. Another outing season has come and with it come the usual throngs of summer visitors to pass their short vacations around New Hampshire's largest lake; but of all those who will gaze in admiration over its islanddotted surface, at the blue mountains of the north country, or cast a line in the vain attempt to land the largest trout of the season, how many will know how to spell the curious old name the Indians have handed down to us? I have often heard it said that there were nineteen different ways of spelling the word, which, according to Chandler E. Potter, New Hampshire's best authority on Indian history and nomenclature, means "the Republished by permission. t Assistant Editor of Sta'.c Papers. X. H. beautiful water of the high place," and is made up from winne (beautiful), nipe (water), kccs (high), and auke iplace). It occurred to me one day to prove the truth or falsity of such a statement, and, from that time forth, I sought and recorded every form of the name that I could find in the coxirse of my work among the manuscript and printed records of my native state. The result was startling, and seemed to indicate that no other word or name in New Hampshire, certainly, and possibly in all New England, is...
