The front cover shows:

The “farm residence of Richard Elliott”, located at Elliotts Mills, Lot 21 — from page 129 of The Illustrated Historical Atlas of the Province of Prince Edward Island, published in 1880 by J. H. Meacham and Company It

is one of the few contemporary illustrations of what appears to be primary old-growth forest on Prince Edward Island. See the comment on the forest at Elliotts Mills by Francis Bain on pages 210 and 211.