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Superior to Lake Winnipeg and the Saskatchewan valley, and discover- 
ing trading stations unknown to the French. The trade of Mackinac, 
Detroit, and Niagara, and other stations at the beginning of the Ameri- 
can revolution, the character of the traders and their relations with the 
Indians, were next considered in the light of unpublished documents, 
from which copious quotations were made. The effects of the war were 
instanced, and a general review taken of the state of the Western trade 
during this period. Some account was then given of the variety of goods 
required for the business and the value of the returns, and in conclusion 
the writer advocated the preparation of a historical map of Ontario and 
the Canadian North-West. 
SIXTEENTH MEETING. 
Sixteenth Meeting, 5th March, 1892, the President in the chair. 
Donations and Exchanges since last meeting, 62. 
Prof. Macallum, J. B. Williams, and J. G. Ridout were named to meet 
the Minister of Agriculture with the deputation from Lincoln and 
Niagara on the diseases of fruit trees. 
A communication was read from the Imperial Russian Society of 
Geography announcing the death of the President His Imperial Highness 
the Grand Duke Constantine. 
eae Horetzky was elected a member. 
Mr. W. D. Stark read a paper on “The History of Greenland and 
Iceland,” giving a short description of the coasts of Greenland and Ice- 
land, noting some facts concerning the antiquity of the islanders. Their 
manners, habits, and modes of livelihood were touched upon, including 
some account of the animals useful to the inhabitants of those desolate 
regions. 
The President, Mr. Arthur Harvey, then read “ Rutherford’s Narrative 
—An Episode in the Pontiac War, 1763—an unpublished manuscript 
with introductory notes by Mr. Harvey.” This graphic and interesting 
narrative of the capture and ensJavement of Lieut. Rutherford, an officer 
of the “ Black Watch,” by the Indians of Detroit in 1763 was presented 
by the narrator’s grandson, Colonel T. W. Rutherford, of the Madras 
Staff Corps, late commandant at Delhi, India, to Mr. Thomas Hodgins, 
to be used as he saw fit. Mr. Hodgins presented it to the Institute, for 
which a vote of thanks was tendered to him. 
