CHAP. j. CHARTS OP THE INTERIOR. 11 



The map is signed thus- 



Fait a la riviere Mosie en juillet 1859. 



Chs. Arnaud, ptre. O.M.I. 



One of the objects of the present expedition was to 

 ascertain the degree of confidence which might be 

 placed in the Montagnais chart of the interior, and to 

 test, as far as the season would permit, the native de- 

 lineations and descriptions by my own observations 

 and the maps resulting from our exploratory survey. 

 So little was the Moisie, or Mis-te-shipu of the abori- 

 gines, known in Canada when the Surveyor-General 

 of the then Lower Province, Joseph Bouchette, published 

 his work on the British Dominions in North America 

 in 1832, that its name is not even mentioned among 

 the chief rivers flowing into the St. Lawrence and Gulf, 

 while those of rivers having scarcely one half its mag- 

 nitude or importance are given. The Ichimanipistick, 

 or Eiver of Seven Islands, and the St. John, on either 

 side of the Moisie, are named, but the ' Grand Eiver ' was 

 apparently unknown to the Surveyor-General in 1832.* 

 In the description of the limits of the Domaine, after- 

 wards the territory of the King's Posts Company, by 

 Hocquart in 1733, the Moisie is referred to in the follow- 

 ing terms : ' Lower down the river the domain shall be 

 bounded by virtue of our aforesaid ordonnance of the 

 12th instant, by Cape Cormorant as far as the Height of 

 Land, in which tract shall be included the Eiver Moisie, 

 Lake of the Kichestigaux, the Lake of the Naskapis, and 



* Page 29'5. The British Dominions in North America, fyc. By Joseph 

 Bouchette, Esq., Surveyor-General of Lower Canada, fec. London : 

 Longmans, 1832. 



