An Exploration up the Moisie River, to the Edge of the Table-Land of the Labrador Peninsula. [Extract from:] Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 34, (1864).
[London: John Murray for the Royal Geographical Society of London, 1864].
Folding map, partly colored in outline. Pp. [82]-87. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary cloth, leather spine label, by James Hope & Sons, Ottawa. Fine Wigton Box 77. Item #240290
Exploration up the Moisie River, noting the rugged landscape and the aftermath of "the extensive conflagrations which have swept over a very considerable portion of the peninsula", and diminished the populations of the Nasquapees, a Cree-speaking tribe, and the formerly abundant wildlife that the forests sustained.
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