% : FURS. 
fearned. from a ia oan Indians, that the con- 
ae oe m 
e By. an journey - was afcertained that any 
sacatelat a a between the Atlantic and cy if 
exifting, muft be beyond that high latitude. | But anes 
s bay company, alt 
charter was sag aes as it 0 ftenfibly jtates, granted for 
that im “we North-weft compan 
- 
Attended by a few Indians, he 
ee eal y in cme a a tly by walking, the great 
extent of wildernefs in which their potts are cftablifhed, aad 
pr oceeded beyond them down a conliderable river, unning 
north, till he a€tually arrived at the Frozen ocean, in which 
he faw fome {mall whales among fields of ice, os obferved 
the rife and fall of the tide. which he 
gave the name : a le-iflan 
to whi ch alfo he 
s of Aetes: ark e fu 
ing 3 
reafona ee &tures or fpecula- 
tions upon dit t fubjeét, more efpecially ince the veyage of 
U 
39° as far as es ie, called Cook’s river, and 
Prince ‘William’ s found, 
creek and . 
very. In 
ected urfe oO the w ae and after paffing the 
highelt nid a walking above 100 miles, he and his party 
re-embarked on a river running weft, and plentifully ftocked 
with excellent falmon, which conveyed them to an inlet o 
the Pacific ocean, where t v porpufes and fea-otters, 
and obferved a confiderable rife nee fall of the tide. There, 
at a place previoutly denominated Cafcade Canal, , by captain 
Vancouver, he the words * Alexander 
Mackenzie uly ”? From 
thefe difeoveries, and the fact & havin been sifcereinel, that 
there exifts no pra€ticable nerth-weit paflage by fea be acca 
Afia and America, the i gaaaeeas y ve a different kind of 
communication becom an object mportant confidera- 
tion. ‘he Ruf _ ais firtt difcovered, that along the 
coafts of Afia afeful and regular navigation exifted, 
opened a akes, eee 
an iieic: intercourfe b ye rivers an 
ae long and widely extended c 
atl g Afi ia from America, over which 
obinen 
territories of the latter. From this Mr. eee sear 
t fince th 
and the exiften 
act together in one common. 
n fu ch principe, that the latter might fuee. 
mer in als ica ion. The iva ion of 
ceed es for 
BEE 
obviates any objecti 
And fhould the ona be a € 
interefts, it would be a fair and reafonable prope ofal, 
and Britain 
rther fuggetts, that by means of 7 Nelfon river, - 
which qa Fes itlelf into Hu dfo on’s bay, t e Peach rivers. 
y 
the on 
ne pa the eid ‘length bee ecn the two 
Pacific and the Atlantic. By opening this intercourfe the 
Canadian merchants would be enabled to fu apply the es 
of the interior with a larger quantity 0 
reduced price. The enhanced. value of which, se the 
difficulty of tranfporting them, will be eafily comprehended, 
when the attendant rear aed es are taken into Denier 
tion. he tra&t of tranfport occupies an -of lan 
from three to ree thosfand niles throu gh vps ar a . aay 
large lakes, and n 8 rivers, and t vey 
ance are flight bake re tl 
rupted-by more than fa ies rapids, along 
articles of merchandize are p eny carried on me 
5" 
ed, 
ae ee es on ie north-weft coaft of America 
by capta cook: one of the numerous eaten refulting 
from - ‘ihe urs of that enterprizing circu mnavigator WAS, 
the opening a new and extentfive fource for procuring furs of 
the moft valuable quality, and a new market for European 
commodities; the nature of which has been. further eluci- 
