This volume presents Logan's 1845 field journal, written on a geological expedition up the Ottawa River from Bytown to Lake Timiskaming. The journal is sprinkled with fascinating stories of daily life during the expedition, supplemented with Logan's sketches of the landscape and geological features.
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This volume presents Logan's 1845 field journal, written on a geological expedition up the Ottawa River from Bytown to Lake Timiskaming. The journal is sprinkled with fascinating stories of daily life during the expedition, supplemented with Logan's sketches of the landscape and geological features.
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Very Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xvii, 238pp., index, biblio., notes, ill., maps. Mercury Series, History Paper No. 54. "This volume presents Logan's 1845 field journal, written as his party explored and mapped the Ottawa River from Lachine to the head of Lake Timiskaming, and from the mouth of the Mattawa River to Lake Nipissing. The journal is sprinkled with fascinating stories of daily life during the expedition-how the field party lived, worked and travelled, the people they met, and the social and economic conditions of the time. In place of a camera, Logan supplemented his notes with sketches of the landscape and geological features."
