INTRODUCTION. 
‘¢ refpecting a paflage out of Hudfon’s Bay * into 
“the Weftern Ocean, as hath lately been repre- 
“‘ fented by the American Traveller. The particu- 
“Jars of thofe remarks you are to infert in your 
* Journal, to be remitted home to the Company. 
*¢ If you fhould want any fupplies of ammuniti- 
“on, or other necefflaries, difpatch fome trufty 
‘* Indians to the Fort witha letter, {pecifying the 
“© quantity of each article, and appoint a place 
‘* for the faid Indians to meet you again. 
** When on your return, if at a proper time of 
“the year, and you fhould be near any of the 
‘* harbours that are frequented by the brigantine 
** Charlotte, or the floop Churchill, during their 
«© voyage to the Northward, and you fhould chufe 
“to return in one of them, you are defired to 
‘‘ make frequent fmokes as you approach thofe 
** harbours, and they will endeavour to receive 
“you by making f{mokes in anfwer to yours ; 
** and as one thoufand feven hundred and feven- 
** ty-one will probably be the year in which you 
** will return, the Mafters of thofe veflels at that 
“* period 
Ihave feen feveral Indians who have been fo far Weft as to crofs the top 
of that immenfe chain of mountains which run from North to South of the 
continent of America. Beyond thofe mountains all rivers run to the 
Weftward. I muft here obférve, that all the Indians I ever heard 
relate their excurfions in that country, had invariably got fo far to the 
“South, that they did not experience any Winter, nor the leaft appearance 
of either froft or fhow, though fometimes they have been abfent eighteen 
months, or two years, 
* As toa paflage through the continent of America by the way of Hud- 
fon’s Bay, it has fo long been exploded, notwith{tanding what Mr Ellis has 
urged in its favour, and the place it has found inthe vifionary Map of the 
American Traveller, that any comment on it would be quite unneceflary, 
My latitude only will be a fufficient proof that no fuch paffage isin exiftence 
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