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INTER ODUC'TIOR 
and other large bones of thofe two men are now 
lying above-ground cloie to the houfe. ‘The 
longett liver was, according to the Efquimaux 
account, always employed in working of iron 
into implements for them; probably he was the 
armourer, or {mith. 
Some Northern Indians who came to trade at 
Prince of Wales’s Fort in the Spring of the year 
one thoufand feven hundred and fixty-eight, 
brought farther accounts of the grand river, as 
it was called, and alfo feveral pieces of copper, as 
famples of the produce of the mine near it; 
which determined Mr. Norton, who was then 
Governor at Churchill, to reprefent it to the 
Company as an affair worthy of their attention ; 
and as he went that year to England, he had an 
opportunity of laying all the information he had 
received before the Board, with his opinion there- 
on, and the plan which he thought motft likely 
to fucceed in the difcovery of thofe mines. In 
confequence of Mr. Norton’s reprefentations, the 
Committee refolved to fend an intelligent perfon 
by land to obferve the longitude and latitude of 
the river’s mouth, to make a chart of the country 
he might walk through, with fuch remarks as 
occurred to him during the Journey ; when f 
was pitched on as a proper perfon to conduct the 
expedition. By the fhip that went to Churchill 
in the Summer of one thoufand feven hundred 
and fixty-nine, the Company fent out fome aftro- 
nomical inftruments, very portable, and fit for 
fuch 
