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little attention to them, amidft the vaft variety of beafts they at that 
time poffeffed, both for food and cloathing. But about the period of 
the fafhion of hats, they became an article of commerce, and object of 
chafe. The fouthern colonies foon became exhaufted of their 
Beavers; and, of later years the trafficihas been much confined to Ca- 
nada and Hudfon’s Bay. "The importance of this trade, and the ra- 
vages made among the animal creation in thofe parts, will appear by 
the following ftate of the imports into the ports of London and 
Rochelle in 1743. I take that year, as I have no other comparative 
{tate : 
Hudfon’s Bay company fale, begun November 17th 1743. 
26,750 Beaver fkins. 
14,730 Martins. 
5go Otters, 
1,110 Cats, i. e. Lynx. 
320 Fox. 
600 Wolverenes. 
320 Black Bears. 
ei a 1,850 Wolves. 
40 Woodbfhocks, or Fifhers. 
10 Minx. 
5 Raccoon. 
120 Squirrels. 
130 Elks, i. e. Stags, 
440 Deer. 
Imported into Rochelle in the fame year, 
127,080 Beavers. 
16,512 Bears. 
\ 110,000 Raccoon. 
30,325 Martins. 
12,428 Otters and Fifhers., 
1,700 Minx. 
1,220 Cats. 
E 1,267 Wolves, 
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