The Oregon Territory: A Geographical and Physical Account of that Country and Its Inhabitants with Outlines of Its History and Discovery

by Nicolay, Rev. Charles Grenfell

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London:: Charles Knight, , 1846. First edition. 12mo, . Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece view of the Columbia River, an engraved map of the northern Pacific coast extending from Columbia River to Johnstone's Straits in Northern British Columbia and a folding map extending from San Francisco to Mt. St. Elias in Alaska rebound in new cloth. a couple of light spots else fine. Rev. Nicolay was an English geologist and geographer who divided his time both as a chaplain and a librarian for Kings College in London. After helping found Queen's College for women, he spent some time in Brazil before settling in Australia. He wrote numerous geographical and geological works including a "Handbook of Western Australia" for prospective migrants. His work on Oregon includes descriptions of travel in the interior as well as charting explorers' routes.