[Footnote 66:  Ibid. p. 357.]

[Footnote 67:  Paper on Indian Names, ut supra, p. 366; and 3 Mass.  Historical Collections, vi. 145. [Compare, the Iroquois Swa-deh’ and Oswa’-go (modern Oswego), which has the same meaning as Alg. sauki,—­“flowing out.”—­Morgan’s League of the Iroquois.]]

Saganaum, Sagana, now Saginaw[68] Bay, on Lake Huron, received its name from the mouth of the river which flows through it to the lake.

[Footnote 68:  Saguinam, Charlevoix, i. 501; iii. 279.]

The Mississagas were people of the missi-sauk, missi-sague, or (with locative) missi-sak-ing,[69] that is ‘great outlet.’  In the last half of the seventeenth century they were seated on the banks of a river which is described as flowing into Lake Huron some twenty or thirty leagues south of the Sault Ste. Marie (the same river probably that is now known as the Mississauga, emptying into Manitou Bay,) and nearly opposite the Straits of Mississauga on the South side of the Bay, between Manitoulin and Cockburn Islands.  So little is known however of the history and migrations of this people, that it is perhaps impossible now to identify the ‘great outlet’ from which they first had their name.

[Footnote 69:  Relations des Jesuites, 1658, p. 22; 1648, p. 62; 1671, pp. 25, 31.]

The Saguenay (Sagnay, Sagne, Saghuny, etc.), the great tributary of the St. Lawrence, was so called either from the well-known trading-place at its mouth, the annual resort of the Montagnars and all the eastern tribes,[70] or more probably from the ’Grand Discharge’[71] of its main stream from Lake St. John and its strong current to and past the rapids at Chicoutimi, and thence on to the St. Lawrence.[72] Near Lake St. John and the Grand Discharge was another rendezvous of the scattered tribes.  The missionary Saint-Simon in 1671 described this place as one at which “all the nations inhabiting the country between the two seas (towards the east and north) assembled to barter their furs.”  Hind’s Exploration of Labrador, ii. 23.

[Footnote 70:  Charlevoix, Nouv.  France, iii. 65; Gallatin’s Synopsis, p. 24.]

[Footnote 71:  This name is still retained.]

[Footnote 72:  When first discovered the Saguenay was not regarded as a river, but as a strait or passage by which the waters of some northern sea flowed to the St. Lawrence.  But on a French map of 1543, the ’R. de Sagnay’ and the country of ‘Sagnay’ are laid down.  See Maine Hist.  Soc.  Collections, 2d Series, vol. i., pp. 331, 354.  Charlevoix gives Pitchitaouichetz, as the Indian name of the River.]

In composition with _-tuk_, ‘river’ or ‘tidal stream,’ sauki (adjectival) gave names to ‘Soakatuck,’ now Saugatuck, the mouth of a river in Fairfield county, Conn.; to ‘Sawahquatock,’ or ‘Sawkatuck-et,’ at the outlet of Long Pond or mouth of Herring River, in Harwich, Mass.; and perhaps to Massaugatucket, (missi-saukituk-ut?), in Marshfield, Mass., and in South Kingston, R.I.,—­a name which, in both places, has been shortened to Saquatucket.