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Nepisiguit River
River in northern New Brunswick, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nepisiguit River is a major river in northern New Brunswick, Canada, which enters the sea at the city of Bathurst, into the Nepisiguit Bay, part of the Bay of Chaleur.
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Appears in Jesuit Relations (1643) as Nepegiguit, a corruption through the French of the Micmac Win-peg-ij-oo-ik, "the river that dashes roughly along", a reference to the torrential character of the river.[1]