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Title: Labrador, the country and the people
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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LABRADOR THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE BY WILFRED T. GRENFELL, C.M.G., M.R.C.S.,M.D. (OxoN.) AND OTHERS Neb) gork THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1909 All rights reserved 6-s Copyright, 1909,By the MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1909. J. S. Gushing Co. —Berwick & Smith Co.Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. 1~ ©Gl.A25r37^ FOREWORD By Wilfred T. Grenfell Haying selected for myself a role in life that compelsme to pass most of my days along the coasts of Labrador,I have come to love the rugged fastnesses of my adoptedcountry, and to lament the amount of almost Stygian dark-ness that hangs still over it and its resources. With re-gard to the future of this vast area, nearl)^ half a millionsquare miles, I am myself an optimist. True it is thatthe great tide of humanity flowing ever westward has forthe most part passed it by, leaving it lone and frigid inits polar waters. But the hand of man has grappled withharder problems than this presents. A scientific man has but recentllabradorcountryp02gren
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