EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION 19 



" Pennant's Supplement to Arctic Zoology," 1787. Some of 

 the names used on these two maps were continued on the map 

 accompanying Alexander Mackenzie's " Voyages," and also on 

 Arrowsmith's maps up to comparatively recent dates. 



The book here republished appeared first in 1795, three 

 years after Hearne's death, as a large quarto volume of xliv + 

 458 pages, with five maps, and four full-page illustrations. It 

 was edited by the above-named Dr. John Douglas, who is 

 said to have drawn up the narrative, and to have finished the 

 Introduction, though just how much Hearne's diction was 

 altered by the editor is not known. It is probable, how- 

 ever, that the MS. was published almost exactly as Hearne 

 had written it. An octavo edition, similar in letterpress 

 to the original quarto one, but with some slight omissions or 

 differences in the text and in the general map, was published 

 in Dublin in 1796. 



A French translation of the 1795 edition, by Lallemant, 

 one of the secretaries in the French Department of the Marine, 

 was published at Paris in 1799. -D^- Arthur G. Doughty, 

 the Archivist of the Dominion of Canada, has very kindly 

 compared this edition with the English one of 1795, ^^^ 

 makes the following remarks with regard to it : — 



" The dedication of the English version is omitted in the French. 

 In the Introduction, page 27, there is a note in the English edition 

 which is not translated. Pages 441 to 445 of the English edition are 

 omitted in the French. At the beginning of the French version there 

 is a note on Hearne from the * Voyage of La Perouse,' and some 

 remarks by Lallemant. The translation of the whole volume appears 

 to be good." 



The note from the " Voyage of La Perouse " and the 

 remarks of Lallemant are as follows : — 



" A La Perouse. — C'est a vous que I'Europe est redevable de la 

 publication de cet ouvrage, dont le manuscrit fut trouve parmi les 

 papiers du Gouverneur du fort du Prince de Galles, lorsque vous vous 



