Gisborne's journal of an electric telegraph survey in Newfoundland 1851

Abstract

This is the second journal volume kept by Gisborne while completing the St. John's-Cape Ray telegraph route survey of September-December 1851. It was a very difficult journey, his entries recording the many hardships he and his men faced, as well as providing details about the whites and Aboriginals they met alone the way. -- Includes a biographical article with portrait, appended at the end: L.E. Jones, "Delineations of destiny: 9. Frederic Newton Gisborne (1824-1892)," Engineering Digest, December 1967, 37-38.Photocopy of typescript