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Account of Books for 1792. 
A Journal of Transactions and Events,, 
during a Residence of nearly sixteen 
Years on the coast of Labrador ; 
containing many interesting Parti- 
eulars, both of the Country and its 
Inhabitants, not hitherto known. 
journalist, who prefers the simplicity 
of plain language and downright 
truth, to all the specious ornaments 
-of modern stile and description. I 
humbly tiust, that;this apology will 
satisfy my friends, and ‘serve to ex- 
Illustrated with proper Charts, by tenuate those errors which must be 
George Cartwright, Esq. In three too obvious to be overlooked by cri- 
Volumes 4to. 1792. 
R. Cartwright here gives the 
_world an acceunt of the daily 
transactions of his life during a long 
residence in the cold and dreary re- 
gions of Labrador, and among a race 
so low in the scale of human beings, 
so wretched, so ignorant, and so de- 
graded as the Esquimaux. These 
volumes contain much interesting 
information, and no small share of 
entertainment, but are, as we think, 
far too minute and tedious. For 
these defects, however, the author 
claims and deserves indulgence, from 
the circumstance that his journal was 
written for no other purpose than to 
serve as a memorandum for his own 
use and personal reference; and that 
it was only owing to the solicitations 
of his friends, who had occasionally 
read parts of the manuscript, that he 
was prevailed upon to print the 
work. 
Mr. Cartwright prefaces his work 
with a short account of himself: 
which he concludes with saying, 
““The only merit to which I have 
any pretensions, is that of a faithful 
tical examinations,” 
The first volume contains the 
transactions of Mr. Cartwright’s first 
voyage,and a residence of three years 
at Labrador; which he undertook in 
consequence of a partnership he had 
entered into with Messrs. Perkins, 
Coghlan, and Lucas, of Bristol, for 
the purpose of carrying on various 
branches of business upon that coast, 
and particularly of endeavouring to 
cultivate a friendly intercourse with 
the Esquimaux Indians; and by the 
terms of which Mr. Cartwright was 
to reside in Labrador, to direct and 
manage all their concerns on shore. 
At the expiration of the term of the 
partnership, daring which he had no 
reason to be pleased with the conduct 
of bis partners toward him, he re- 
turned to England, and brought with 
him a whole family of Esquimaux 
Indians, consisting of six persons. 
The impression made on these sa- 
vages by the sight of things so extra- 
ordinary and novel as they beheld in 
this country, we shall leave our au- 
thor to describe. 
** | went down theriver this morn- 
ing, met the vessel in the Pool, and 
brought 
