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THE POLAR WORLD. 



amounts to about 150,000 or 200,000. Besides, many of its furs are bartered 

 for Russian- American peltry, and a large quantity is exported direct to China. 



After this brief account of one of the most remarkable mercantile associa : 

 tions of any age, some remark on the chief fur-bearing animals of the Hudson's 



