MAPS OK THE LABRADOR COAST. 3 



coast-region, should be adequately mapped. At present, 

 Ibss is known of the vast region between Hudson Bay 

 and the Atlantic Ocean than of perhaps any region of 

 similar extent in North America ; although the results 

 of exploration might be of more value to geographical 

 and geological science than to trade and commerce. 



Thanks to the labors of the Moravian missionaries, 

 we now have a much better knowledge of the intricacies 

 of the extreme northern coast of Labrador than is af- 

 forded by the charts of the British Admiralty or the 

 United States Coast Survey ; and it is to the rare op- 

 portunity we have been generously afforded by the 

 officers of the Moravian Society in London and Herrn- 

 hut, Saxony, that we are able herewith to present maps 

 which are at least approximately correct, and which 

 must for a long time to come be the only source of 

 any exact knowledge of the multitudinous bays, inlets, 

 promontories, and islands of this exceedingly diversi- 

 fied coast. 



The first special map of Northern Labrador to be 

 published was that by the Moravian Brethren Kohl- 

 meister and Knoch. It comprised the northern ex- 

 tremity of Labrador, north of latitude 57°, including 

 Ungava Bay, and appeared in 18 14. 



Previous to this, Cartwright, in 1792, had published 

 a map of Sandwich Bay and adjacent regions. Then 

 succeeded the general chart of the coast published by 

 Admiral Bayfield, in 1827, and the later charts of the 

 British Admiralty. 



In the United States Coast Survey report for i860, 

 besides an imperfect outline of the coast given in Mr. 

 Lieber's geological map of the Labrador coast, there is 



