PUR’ ES F° A> CE. 
Committee of the Hudion’s Bay Company, for 
leave to perufe my original Journals. ‘This was 
granted with the greateft affability and polite- 
_nefs; as well as a fight of all my Charts relative 
to this Journey. With this affiftance 1 have been 
enabled to rectify fome inaccuracies that had, by 
trufting too much to memory, crept into this co- 
py; andI now offer it to the Public under au- 
thentic dates and the beft authorities, however 
widely fome publications may differ from it. 
I have taken the liberty to expunge fome pafla- 
ges which were inferted in the original copy, as 
being no ways interefting to the Public, and fe-. 
veral others have undergone great alterations 3 
fo that, in fact, the whole may be faid to be new- 
modelled, by being blended with a variety of 
Remarks and Notes that were not inferted in the 
original copy, but which my long refidence in the 
country has enabled me to add. 
The account of the principal quadrupeds and » 
birds that frequent thofe Northern regions in 
Summer, as well as thofe which never migrate, 
though not defcribed in a fcientific manner, may 
not be entirely unacceptable to the moft {cienti- 
fic zoologifts ; and to thofe who are unacquaint- 
ed with the technical terms ufed in zoology, it 
may perhaps be more ufeful and entertaining, 
than if 1 had defcribed them in the moft claflical 
manner. But I muft not conclude this Preface, 
without acknowledging, in the moft ample man- 
ner, the afliftance I have received from the perv- 
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