Lake Squam. 365
journal he says, — " 1724, Feb. 10. We Dr. Belknap's map, 1791, says
traveled 16 miles & encamped at the " Squam Lake," and Carrigain's map,
North side of Cusumpe Pond." — Vis- 181G, says "Squam," and all the
itor. Vol. Xlir, p. 355. maps since that time have this name
Capt. Samuel Willard says, — "1725, of ill sound. Most people dislike the Saturday, Sept. 25. We marched name : it makes them think of squirm- about 6 mile & came to y"^ carrying ing eels and slimy frogs, and the poet place, where y* Indians carry their Whittier calls it Asquam, which in ■Canoes from Pimichiwasset to Sow- Indian language means water, a name haig River,* and found that y* Indians which, for that matter, might l)e ap- had lately been there and carried their plied to any pond in the world. Couoes. Cap'. Willard took half Judge Potter says, — " Squam lake -a scout of his own & half of C was called by the Indians ' Kees- Blanchers being in all 24 & followed sehuncknipee,' from kees (high), V* Indians and a^-little before we come sehunck (a goose, so called from the to Cusumpy Pond we found where noise it makes), and nipee (a lake), they broke one Conoe & Coming to meaning ' The Goose Lake of the y^ Pond could follow them noe fur- Highlands,' which was contracted ther." — AppalacJiia, Vol. II, p. 341. into Keesunnipee, and corrupted by
Jeffrey's map, 1755, says " Ku- the English into Cusumpy and Ca-
sumpe Pond," a beautiful name. sumpy." — Visitor, Vol. XII, p.
Blanchard & Langdon's map, 1761, 357.
— " Cusumpy P." Why should not Keesunnipee, a
Jeffrey's map, 1764, — "Cusumpy P." name weird as the honk of a wild
Holland's map, 1784, — " Cusumpy goose from the sky, or its further
P.," along with Squam Lake." This euphonious contraction, Kusumpe,
map is the last to show the name suggestive of a partridge drumming
Cusumpy pond, and the first to show in the woods, be restored to our most
Squam lake. beautiful gem of the AVhite hills.
��Lake Squam. — On the left hand as under the charge of tutors who keep
we go up the lake, on what is known them in strict discipline. No one is
as Balch's Island, is Camp Chocorua. allowed to go on to the main land
This is a real camp, not of war- without permission, and each boy
scarred veterans, but of fair, rosy- cares for his own boat, his clothes,
cheeked youths. From fifty to sev- and cooks his own food. It is a
enty-five boys, ranging between ten grand thing for the boys, I am sure,
and twenty years of age, and hailing The camp is under the auspices of
from half the states of the Union, the Episcopal church. Prof. E. W.
have their quailers here, spending the Balch is the principal tutor,
summer months in boating, rowing, f. m. c. swimming, and picnicking. They are
•Probably the outlet of Squam lake. Capt. Powers mentions Sawheganet falls, near its mouth, ■which he " carried by." — Histury of Cods, p. 19.
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