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1st Edition. 13pp. Folio, sewn as issued, in original printed blue wrappers. fine Not in TPL, Sabin, Peel, Casey, Lande, Gagnon or NUC. A chronological summary of significant facts and occurrences in the history of the Company, from 1670 to 1853, in a series of brief statements, with appropriate dates in large black type in the adjacent margins, commencing with the Charter of King Charles the Second. The last three entries read: 1846 - in 1846, Dr. Rae, the Company's Surgeon at Moose Factory, at the head of a party of twelve men, wintered in Repulse Bay; and in the next year surveyed almost 655 miles of land and coasts on the shore of Committee Bay.; 1848 - 1850 - in 1848 Dr. Rae accompanied Sir John Richardson in his search for Franklin; and in 1850 led an Expedition by Great Bear Lake and the Coppermine River to the shores of the Arctic; 630 miles of coast on the southern shores of Victoria and Wollaston lands were surveyed, traced and accurately laid down. 1853 - in 1853 Dr. Rae again wintered on Repulse Bay with a party of seven men, having, as before, no fuel for cooking; 1,100 miles of land coast were explored in that season, and definite intelligence of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his party was obtained. Few labourers in the cause of science have done or suffered more than this gallant Officer of the Company. The expense of these Expeditions, and the assistance rendered to Sir John Ross in 1850, have cost the company very large sums of money. The whole of the North Coast of the American Continent, with the exception of a small portion of one hundred and fifty miles not yet accurately surveyed, has been carefully examined by the Officers of the Company. Indeed, but for the Fur Trade and its Adventurers, the greater part of the vast district north of the Canadas would still be a profitless and unknown region. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 106158
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