A FEW months relaxation from professional studies 

 .during the summer of the year 1812, and a very liberal 

 offer of the EARL of SELKIRK, induced me to become 

 the medical attendant on his Lordship's colony, then 

 about to depart for HUDSON'S BAY. 



The notes which I took during jthat very interesting 

 voyage, have lain by me ever since ; nor is it probable 

 they would ever have emerged from obscurity, but for 

 the unprecedented interest which the affairs of that part 

 of the northern world have of late excited, and for the 

 present convenient and popular form ojf publication. 



The literary defects which pervade this narrative 

 require, I am aware, some apology ; but this, I should 

 hope, will be afforded by the unremitting anxieties 

 to which I am exposed in my present situation of 

 Assistant to the extensive Lying-in Hospital of this 

 city, 



Dublin Lying-in Hospital, 

 Aug. 26, 1819. 



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