A JOURNEY TO THE 
“ general, or the Hullfon’s Bay Company in pare | 
“* ticular ; inthe year 1770. | 
ee Mr. Sav HEARNE, 
Pd Aes ! 
«© As you have offered your fervice a third time | 
“to go in fearch of the Copper Mine River, &c. 
“«* and as Matonabbee, a leading Indian, who has | 
“* been at thofe parts, is willing to be your guide, | 
“‘ we have accordingly engaged him for that fer- 
** vice; but having no other inftrument on the — 
“* fame conftruction with the quadrant you had — 
“* the misfortune to break, we have furnifhed you | 
“with an Elton’s quadrant, being the moft pro- | 
“* per inftrument we can now procure for ie | 
*¢ ing obfervations on the land. 
“© The above Leader, Matonabbee, and a few of | 
¢* his beft men, which he has felected for that pur- 
“ pofe, are to provide for you, aflift you in all 
“© things, and conduct you to the Copper Mine 
“¢ River; where you mutt be careful to obferve ff 
“the latitude and longitude, alfo the courfe of f 
“the river, the depth of the water, the fituation [) 
“of the Copper Mines, &c. but your firft in-f 
« flrudtions, of November fixth, one thoufand fe- | 
“ven hundred and fixty-nine, being fufficiently | 
“ full, we refer. you to every part thereof for 
“the better regulation of your conduct durings 
“ this journey. : 
“Ag . 
