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LWP oO DU Cc T EON. 
Company’s proceedings in the Bay, might give 
rife to thofe conjectures ; and the unfounded af- 
fertions and unjuft afperfions of Dobbs, Ellis, 
Robfon, Dragge, and the American Traveller, 
the only Authors that have written on Hudfon’s 
Bay, and wi.o have all, from motives of intereft 
or revenge, taken a particular pleafure in arraign- 
ing the conduct of the Company, without having 
any real knowledge of their proceedings, or any 
experience in their fervice, on which to found 
their charges, muft have contributed to confirm 
the public in that opinion. Moft of thofe Writ- 
ers, however, advance fuch notorious abfurdities, 
that none except thofe who are already prejudic- 
ed againft the Company can give them credit*. 
Robfon, from his fix years refidence in Hud- 
fon’s Bay and in the Company’s fervice, might 
naturally have been fuppofed to know fomething 
of the climate and foil immediately round the 
Faétories at which he refided ; but the whole of 
his book is evidently written with prejudice, and 
dictated by a fpirit of revenge, becaufe his ro- 
mantic and inconfiftent {chemes were rejected by 
the Company. Befides, it is well known that 
Robfon was no more than a tool ip the hand of © 
Mr. Dobbs. 
The American Traveller, though a more ele- 
_ gant, 
* Since the above was written, a Mr. Umfreville has publifhed an ac- 
count of Fudfon’s Bay, with the fame ill-nature as the. former Authors ; 
and for no other reafon than that of being difappointed in fucceeding te 
a command in the Bay, though there was no vacancy for him, 
