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transported 700 miles inland at the rate of 20s. per 100 

 pounds, and readies Red River about the 1st of October. 

 The Hudson's Bay Company grant us bills of exchange pay- 

 able at the Hudson's Bay House, London, thirty days after 

 sight. The cost of transport, you see, is great, and in order 

 to make any profit we would require to get our goods pretty 

 cheap at home. The goods for our market are principally 

 coarse and of the cheapest kind, as people here have not gen- 

 erally much notion of finery, as for instance, prints, cord 

 trousers and other kinds, Rouen shirts, common striped shirts, 

 woollen stuffs, cottons, handkerchiefs, silk and cotton, blank- 

 ets, dresses for women (not made), etc., etc 



Since writing to you last one of my sisters, Henrietta, has 

 married to our beloved pastor, Rev. John Black, and had a 

 son about five months ago. There remains but one sister, 

 she is the youngest, 17 years of age, and a brother, about 13 

 years, besides James, who is in Canada. All the rest have 

 married and are doing well 



Your affectionate cousin, 



William Ross. 



ARRIVES FROM THE WEST. 



In 1825 the fur trader gave up his position and came 

 from the Rockies down the Saskatchewan to Lake Winnipeg. 

 He then went to the meeting of the Hudson's Bay Company's 

 officers at JSTorway House. In his work, " The Fur Hunters 

 of the Far West," pp. 228-233, Ross gives an account of the 

 meeting and of the gift to him of 100 acres of land, on what 

 is now the site of the City of Winnipeg. 



In the neighborhood of ]STorway House there is a small 

 river, which, according to report, was entered during the time 



