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LL normal men are born hunters, though the quarry they follow is diverse enough. With the majority it is wealth, with others knowledge, with some reforms, while most return at times with joy to the primitive original of it all, the capture of the wild game of the woods and waters. As for me, I enjoy several forms of the chase, but the one that I follow with particular zest is the historic origin of the place-names of my native province. I do not believe that any hunter ever yet stalked the lordliest moose and brought him to earth, or any fishermen ever yet played the noblest salmon to gaff, with an intenser pleasure than I experience as I trace some one of our historic place-names through all its devious historical wanderings and bring it to book. But like other sportsmen, I sometimes lose big ones, and this is to tell of a beauty which I thought I had but didn't, because I took the wrong trail.

The name in question is Saint Andrews, on Passamaquoddy. It can be traced back on many maps and in many documents to the Morris Map and Report of 1765, (in Ms. in the Public Record Office, London) where it is applied to the island east of the town, which we now call Navy Island. But earlier than that there is no authentic record of it, though there are two or three hints. Thus in the invaluable Boundary Ms. now in the possession of Rev. Dr. Raymond, are several depositions of residents at Passamaquoddy taken in 1796–97; in one of these, by John Curry, we read: "In 1770, when this deponent first came to the country, there was an Indian place of worship and a cross standing upon Saint Andrews, or Indian Point, and a burying ground which he understood from them

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