Word: quinebonquin
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...Charles River has not always been the Charles River. The Algonquins called it "Quinebonquin," meaning circular, which it isn't, although it turns this way and that so often it may appear that it could not be going any way but back. When Sieur de Champlain was snooping around the east coast in 1603 and came upon the broad mouth of the river, he named it the River du Guast after his fellow adventurer. He thought he was bestowing a great honor because he believed he had come upon a gateway to the West. He never got around to investigating...
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