170 T/ce Arctic Voijagers. 



I will now briri*'- iny observations to a collcUl^;ion ; J Tear 1 have 

 trespassed too largely <>!^ tlie patience of the meeting, but tmst it 

 will consider the importance of ttie subject as some excuse for my 

 prolixity, and the numerous extracts v/hicb I have ina le frum the 

 various works I have consulted. 



Note. — I am indebted to James Logan, Esq., for the dates of sowing 

 of his vai'ious crops. 



ARllCLE XXI. — Gleanings in tke Natural Hulori/ of the 

 Hudson'' s Bay Territories, by the Arctic Voyagers. * 



The two books of which we give abstr;i(;ts of the titles below, 

 are the most interesting of all those that have been brought fortl» 

 as the fruits of th;it great scientific undei taking, the discovery of 

 the North West Passage. The first contains a narrative of Sii- 

 John Richamlson's journey l>y laud to the Arctic Sea, in 1848,. 

 and his return by the same route in 1849, Sir John left Liver- 

 pool on the 25th March, ]848, landed at New York on the lOfh 

 April, and arrived at Montreal five days after.- At' Lachine he 

 was supplied by Sir George Simpson with experienced voyageurs- 

 who were engaged as canoe-men for the long journey. On the 

 29th April he reached Sault St Marie, at the outlet of Lake 

 Superior, on the 12th May, Fort William, on the 18th the summit 

 of the water shed which separates Lake Superior from Lake 

 Winipeg, on the oth of June, Cumberland House, one of the 

 Company's Stations,, situated on the Sascatchewan, and on the 

 15th of September, Fort Confidence. This station is about three 

 miles from Dease River on Great Bear Lake, in latitude 66", 54'', 

 north, and longitude 118°, 49', west. 



It is within 100 miles of the shores of the Arctic Sea, and 

 2530 miles, fi'om Montreal by the route travelled. Here the 

 party remained during the winter of' 1848-49, and returned to 

 England in the following summer. 



* 1 . Journal of a Boat voyage through RuperPs Land and the Arctic 

 Sea, in search of the Discovery Ships under the cammand of Sir John 

 Franklin, loith an Appendix on the Physical Geography of North America, 

 By Sui John Richardson, London, Loncman,. Brown, Gkeg:n and Lonr- 

 MANS, 1851. 



2. McOlure's Discovery of the North West Passage, Edited by G\pt. 

 Osborne, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1857. 



