PREFACE, 
‘portion, ashe has done; becaufe, before I arriv- 
ed at Conge-cathawhachaga, the Sun did not fet. 
during the whole night: a proof that I was then 
to the Northward of the Arctic Circle. I may be 
allowed to add, that when I was at the Copper 
River, on the eighteenth of July, the Sun’s decli- 
nation was but 2:°, and yet it. was certainly 
fome height above the horizon at midnight ; 
how ibiiel, as I did not ¢hen remark, I wills not 
now take upon me to fay; but it vives that the 
latitude was confiderably more than Mr. Dalrym- 
- ple will admit of. His aflertion, that no grafs is 
to be found on the (rocky) coait of Greenland 
farther North than the latitude of 65°, is no 
proof there fhould not be any in a much_ high- 
r latitude in the interior parts of North 
America. For, in the firft place, I think it is 
more than probable, that the Copper River emp- 
ties itfelf into a fort of inland Sea, or extenfive 
Bay, fomewhat like that of Hudfon’s: and it is 
well known that no part of the coafi of Hudfon’s 
Straits, nor thofe of Labradore, at leaft for fome 
degrees South of them, «any more than the Haft 
coaft of Hudfon’s Bay, till we arrive near Whale 
River, have any trees on them; while the Welt 
coaft of the Bay in the fame latitudes, is well 
clothed with timber. Where then is the ground 
for fuch an affertion? Had Mr. Dalrymple conii- 
dered this circumftance only, I flatter myfelf he 
~ would not fo haftily have objecied to w oods and 
grafs being feen in fimilar fituations, though in a 
much espe latitude. Neither can the weotan: 
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