34 TOO DISTJCNT FOE SETTUEMENT. 



the most capable of developing it. If it turns out to be so 

 ricli as it Las been represented, it will be tbeir interest to en- 

 courage emigration to it. And it is eq[ually tbeir interest -witb. 

 ours to open a route to the Pacific, for tbe profits on tbe transit 

 will be tlieirs, and tbe more tbe country becomes known and 

 accessible, tbe more speedily will it add to tbe resources and 

 wealtb of tbe province. 



It is indeed bardly conceivable tbat a country so far in 

 tbe interior can be profitably settled, so long as tbere is abund- 

 ance of better prairie land to be found 1,000 miles nearer 

 bome. And tbere is a difficulty wbicb bas not been adverted 

 to, tbie hostility of tbe Indians, a very warlike race bere, wbo 

 have bitberto baffled all attempts of tbe Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany to form agricultural settlements. 



