EXPEDITIONS TO PACIFIC. 



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common belief, two maps are reproduced, oue by the French geographer, De L'Isle, 

 published in 1752, the second by Thomas Jeffrey, geographer to the King of England, 

 published in iTôS. For these documents the writer is indebted to the work of Mr. 

 Hubert Howe Bancroft (Vol. XXVII, pp. 128 and 131.) ' 



Fig. 1.— i)o L'lsle'.s IMap, 1752. 



' In the Parliamentary Library, Ottawa, may be seen a map published in London in 1776 by Thomas 

 Jeffrey, geographer to the King, on which is engraved this note " In latitude 53 'tis pretended tliat in 

 1740 Admiral de Fonte entered and sailed by lakes and rivers till he found a ship (as is supposed in Hudson's Bay) 

 from Boston in New England.'' 



