McKenzie, James. Some Account of the King's Posts, the Labrador Coast, and the Island of Anticosti by an Indian Trader Residing there Several Years with a Description of the Natives and the Journal of a trip through those Countries in 1808 by the Same Person. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0017
King's Domains, which it furnished with Beef and Butter till 1762 when general Murray, whose name it now bears, granted it to major Nairne and Lieut. Fraser restricting them however from trading with the Indians[.]
At present the Kings Domains extend along the coast north east the distance of seventy six leagues from the black River five leagues below Murray Bay in Lat: 48.5 Long: 68.38 to the River Cormorant nine leagues beyond the seven Islands which are situated in Lat: 50.7 and Long: 65.45 – And up the River Sagunay in a westerly direction the length of two hundred leagues to Lake Mistassini reckoned half way between HBay and the St Lawrence.
The Seignory of Mingan commencing at the Cormorants stretches along this rugged coast the distance of ninety leagues to the Oroman or Vermillion River which falls into the Gulph at the lower end of the Island of Anticosti about Lat: 50.5 & Long: 61.30[.]
The Island of Anticosti is fifty leagues in length from east to west and ten in the broadest part[.] This Seignory as well as that of Mingan were granted by the
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