The Nature of the Generics in Island, Ledge, and Rock Names of the Maine Coast

fall into four groups and the first half of this study deals with them. Presumably other generics can he similarly treated. The second half, and it is hoped that it grows naturally out of the first, concerns the problem of when elements of binomial toponyms can be considered lexical evidence. The names treated are drawn from the twenty-nine Geological Survey sheets of the 15' series covering the coast of Maine from Calais township to the New Hampshire border. Coast and Geodetic Survey charts as well as The Coast Pilot: Atlantic Coast-Section A are also used, but primarily as checks on the GS sheets, whose yield of names for islands, at least, shows no marked difference from that which can be taken from the two last-mentioned sources.' With ledge and rock names, the same cannot be said, since both the CG charts and The Coast Pilot record somewhat more of these than do the GS sheets. Nevertheless, the sampling provided by the GS sheets seems representative enough for present purposes. 1 Unfortunately, printed sources supply the main body of data and there is the danger, inherent in all such studies, that oral usage may not be mirrored at all times. However, 1 The titles of the topographic sheets with their edition dates and the number of names of offshore features on each follow: Bar Harbor (1942) 48; Bath

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