362 



A. D. 1762. 



The Increafe of the woollen manufactures and the copper he afcribes 

 to the interruption of the French trade in India during the war, as well 

 as to the conftant endeavours of the company, to fend out as large pro- 

 portions of the manufactures and produce of Great Britain as polTible, 

 in preference to gold and l^uUion. 



He further accounts for the decreafe of bullion in the laft four years, 

 partly by the great fums paid to the company by the country princes 

 in purfuance of treaties, but chiefly by the larger fums paid into the 

 company's treafuries by individuals, who had acquired fortunes, which 

 they wifhed to remit home by bills of exchange on the company in 

 England. 



In the year 1761 the HudCon's-bay company, induced by the general 

 opinion, that the opening, called Chefterfield inlet, afforded a confider- 

 able profpect of a pafTage into the Pacific ocean, difpatched a floop un- 

 der the command of Captain Chriflopher to explore it. On his return 

 he reported, that he had navigated the inlet for more than 150 miles in 

 a wefterly direction, till he found the water perfectly frefh, but that he 

 had not explored the head of it. 



In order to put an end to every doubt, he was again fent, in com- 

 pany with Mr. Norton, this year, with orders to trace it to its fource, if 

 practicable. They found that the frefh-water river was the outlet of a 

 lake, which was 24 miles long, and 6 or 7 broad, and that a river flow- 

 ed into the lake fromi the wefl, which they alfo explored in boats, till 

 their further progrcfs was prevented by fills. So it was afcertained that 

 no paflage was to be found in that direction *. 



A proof of the increafe of inhabitants, and of the commercial profper- 

 ity of London may be drawn from the quantity of coals imported 

 which amounted this year to 570,774 chaldrons ; almofl double the 

 f^uantity of the annual importation in the early part of this century. 



The following account of the exports of South-Carolina may be ufe- 

 ful for comparing the progreflive profperity of that province. 



Rice 

 Indigo 



Pitch 

 Tar - 

 Turpentine 

 Rofin 



Oranges (befides 

 loofeonesini76i) 



barrels 

 pounds 

 barrels 



161 



000 



From November 1 760 

 to September l^til. 



100,000 



399o66 

 6,376 



4,808 



144 



From 23d December l/Gl. 

 to 1st September 1/63. 



62,288 

 249,000 



3."o 

 1,119 



751 

 19 



4 



Tlie account of ihefe two voyages, wliich have efcaped the rcfearches of Forfter, the autlior of 

 the H'ljior^' of'voya'ies and iFifovenes in the North, is extraded from Goldfon's Cbfervatlons on the pi]ffagc. 

 bttitieai the /iilaniic and Pacific oceans.. 



