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trial has been vigoroufly purfued fince his days, but without fuccefs. In 1742 an 
attempt was made, as low as the bottom of the Welcome, by Captain AZiddleton ; 
and from the check he met with, he called that part Repul/e Bay. In fubfequent 
trials Wager’s Water was fufpected to be the paflage into the Weftern ocean; 
but in 1747 its end was difcovered, and found to terminate in two navigable 
rivers. The romantic fcenery which the adventurers met with in the way is 
moft admirably defcribed by the elegant pen of Mr. Henry Ellis. 
Chefterfield, or Bowden's Inlet, was likewife fufpeéted to have been the defired 
ftreight ; but in 1762 Mefirs. Norton and Chriffopher, in a floop and cutter be- 
longing to the Company, went tothe remoteft end. At the diftance of a hundred 
and twenty-eight miles from the mouth was fcarcely any tide; thirty miles fur- 
ther it quite died away. The land here grew contracted into a very narrow paflage. 
Here the adventurers entered with the cutter, and difcovered that the end was in a 
magnificent frefh-water lake, to which was given the name of Bager’s. The land 
was quite level, rich in grafs, and abounding with Deer. They found the end 
quite innavigable, and to terminate in a fmall ftream, with many fhoals at its 
mouth, and three falls acrofs it. After finding the water decreafe to the depth of 
two feet, they returned fully fatisfied with their voyage. 
'Hudfon's Bay has been fo frequently defcribed, that I fhall only give a general 
view of it and its adjacent parts. Its entrance from the ocean, after leaving to the 
north Cape Farewell and Davis's Streights, is between Re/olution ifles on the north, 
and Button’s ifles, on the Labrador coaft, to the fouth, forming the eaftern extre- 
mity of the ftreights diftinguifhed by the name of its great difcoverer. The 
coafts very high, rocky, and rugged at top; in places precipitous; but fome- 
times exhibit large beaches. The ifles of Sali/bury, Nottingham, and Digges, 
are alfo very lofty, and naked. The depth of water in the middle of the bay 
is a hundred and forty fathoms. From Cape Churchill to the fouth end of the bay 
are regular foundings; near the fhore fhallow, with muddy or fandy bottom. 
To the north of Churchill, the foundings are irregular, the bottom rocky, and 
in fome parts the rocks appear above the furface at low water. From Azo river, 
or the bottom of the bay, to Cape Churchill, the land is flat, marfhy, and wooded 
with Pines, Birch, Larch, and Willows. From Cape Churchill to Wager’s Water 
the coafts are all high and rocky to the very fea, and woodlefs, except the mouths 
of Pockerekefko, and Seal rivers. The hills on their back are naked, nor are there 
any trees for a great diftance inland. 
The mouths of all the rivers are filled with fhoals, except that of Churchill, 
in which the largeft fhips may lie ; but ten miles higher, the channel is obftructed 
with fand-banks ; and ali the rivers, as far as has been navigated, are full of rapids 
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