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tion contained in a recent number of this Journal,* leads us to _ 
condense and translate from Dr. Petermann’s excellent Mittheil- 
immediate supervision of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and had 
tried to induce them to effect a revision of the claims of that mer- 
cantile body, it was nevertheless, not until 1856 when gold was 
discovered in Fraser’s and Thompson’s rivers, that the British 
government took the matter into serious consideration, and 
in 1857 sent out an expedition (Pallisser’s expedition) and de- 
clared in 1858 New Caledonia, as it was called under the above 
mentioned company, an independent colony, to be known in 
future by the name of British Columbia. At the same time 
t. y 
: chardson, Lord Selkirk, Blodget, and wren They all agree 
at the Saskatchewan district is well adap 
tt Comprises an immense area, and as early as 1805, Lord Selkirk 
oy of the Hudson’s anf 
i ited in the Ar- 
ny: and the reports of his explorations (37 vols.) =a... ste aa 
1 ful whether these reports 
i ith the Company 
oa, be accessible to such as are not co lobe ial, xviii 3 Si acte)} 
