Our knowledge of the interior of the is still so scanty, owing to its inaccessibility, its unnavigable rivers, the shortness of the summer season, and the lack of game, as well as the enormous numbers of and mosquitoes, than any description of this country must long remain imperfect. The only scientific explorer of the interior is , who ascended the , which, however, is a confluent of the , and is in fact, situated only near the borders of Labrador, in the . None of the larger rivers of Labrador have been explored to near their sources; and no one except and but a single employee of the () has ever crossed any considerable portion of the interior.
— ALPHEUS SPRING PACKARD