PREFACE. 
R. Datrymp_e, in one of his Pamphlets 
relating to Hudfon’s Bay, has been fo ve- 
ry particular in his obfervations on my Journey, 
as to remark, that I have not explained the con- 
ftruction of the Quadrant which I had the mis- 
fortune to break in my fecond Journey to the 
North, It was a Hadley’s Quadrant, with a 
bubble attached to it for an horizon, and made by 
Daniel Scatlifof Wapping. But asno inftrument 
on the fame principle could be procured when I 
was fetting out on my laft Journey, an old EI- 
ton’s Quadrant, which had been upwards of thir- 
ty years at the Fort, was the only inftrument I 
could then be provided with, in any refpect pro- 
per for making obfervations with on the land. 
Mr. Dalrymple alfo ebferves, that 1 only in- 
ferted in my laft Journal to the Company, one 
obfervation for the latitude, which may be true; 
but I had, neverthelefs, feveral others during 
that journey, particularly at Snow-bird Lake, 
Thelwey-aza-yeth, and Clowey, exclufive of that 
mentioned in the Journal taken at Conge-catha- 
whachaga. But when I was on that Journey, 
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