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CHAPTER IV. 



I 



DISCOVKllIES IX THE NORTHERN REGIONS DURING 

 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 



Kinglit, Barlow, Vauglian, and Scroggs — Middleton and 

 Moor — Moor and Smith — Hearne — Phipps — Cook and 

 Clarke — Pickersgill — Young — Duncan — Lozi'enoru and 

 Egede — Mackenzie. 



JAjUES KNIGHT, GEORGE BARLOW, DAVID VAUGHA \. 

 AND JOHN SCROGGS. 1719 tO 1722. 



Of the unfortunate voyage, undertaken by 

 Knight, Barlov»% and Vaughan, very little was 

 ever collected, as the two ships sent out upon it 

 were lost and the whole of their crews perished. 

 Mr. Knight, with whom it originated, had been 

 long in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company, 

 and was ultimately appointed Governor of tlie 

 factory established on Nelson's River. In his 

 communications with the native Indians he had 

 learned, that at some distance to the northward, 

 and on the banks of a navigable river or inlet, into 

 which vessels might go from the bay, there was 

 a rich mine of native copper. On the strength 



