Chap, v.] Geography, 57 



larly the Moravian missionaries^ from whom some 

 of the best accounts of the physical and moral con- 

 dition of that portion of our continent have been 

 communicated to the pubHc *. 



The Northern and North-Wesiern parts of North 

 America have been visited, at different periods du- 

 ring the century, by Charlevoix,. CuiTy, Long-}-, 

 Pond, Cartwright, HearneJ, Henry, Turner, and 

 Mackenzie §. The last-named traveller has the 

 honour of being the first white man who ever 

 reached the Pacific Ocean, by an overland progress 

 from the east. Some valuable information concern- 

 ing this portion of the continent, has also been • 

 communicated by certain Moravian missionaries, 

 who resided for a number of years in that inhos- 

 pitable region ||. 



Beside the travellers who with laudable enter- 

 prise have done much toward exploring such parts 

 of the country as were a few years ago wholly 



* See the Tlistoiy of the Missions of the United Brethren among 

 the Indians in North America, By George Henry LoskieL 

 Translated by Latrobe. 8vo. London. 179^- 



f Travels of an Indian Interpreter. 4to. J 7/2. 



% Journey from Prince of Wales' s Fort, in Hudso?i''s Bay, to the 

 Northern Ocean. 4to. ITQo- 



§ Mr. Mackenzie, now sir Alexander Mackenzie, ascertained, 

 beyond all dispute, that there is no northern communication be- 

 tween tlie Atlantic and Pacific Oceans^ except at so high a latitude 

 as to be rendered wholly impracticable by perpetual ice. This 

 long-contested question will probably be considered henceforth as 

 settled. 



II See a Description of Greenland, kc, by Hans Egede, who 

 had been a missionary in the country for t^venty years. Translated 

 from the Danish. 8vo. London. 1745. See also the History of 

 Greenland, &c., by David Crautz. Translated from tlie German. 

 3 vols, 8vo. 17^7' 



