Report of Survey Across Country Form Fortune Bay to Bonavista Bay, by Way of Bay Du North and Terra Nove Rivers: For the Year 1887 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

James P. Howley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0265738407 ISBN 13: 9780265738405

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Report of Survey Across Country Form Fortune Bay to Bonavista Bay, by Way of Bay Du North and Terra Nove Rivers: For the Year 1887

Mount Sylvester was so named by the intrepid traveller, Mr. W. E. Cormack, in 1822, while journeying across the Island in search of the Red Indians. It was the name of his Indian guide and sole companion. Joe Sylvester. In writing of the circum stance, Cormack says, In the whole of the savanna country, which forms the eastern central portion of the interior, there rises but one mountain, which is a solitary peak or pap of granite, standing very conspicuous about forty-five miles from the mouth of the West Salmon River. (bay-du-nord River) of Fortune Bay, on the south coast. It served as an object by which to check our course and distance for about two weeks. I named it Sylvester, the name of my Indian.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0265738407
• ISBN 13: 9780265738405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 36