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OLD FACTORY. 



Per on se about the year 1784. It appears to have 

 been strongly fortified, and from its situation 

 must have been capable of making a formidable 

 resistance to an enemy ; and it can never cease 

 to be a matter of surprise that it should have 

 been surrendered without firing a shot. The 

 walls and bastions are still remaining, which are 

 strewed with a considerable number of cannon, 

 spiked, and of a large calibre. Augustus used 

 to visit this point every morning, in anxious ex- 

 pectation that his countrymen would arrive by 

 the way of the coast, in their seal skin canoes. 

 One day he returned to the Factory evidently 

 much agitated ; and upon inquiry I found that 

 there was an Esquimaux family in a tent by the 

 shore, under one of the rocks, one of whom 

 had greatly alarmed him with the information, 

 that soon after he left his tribe with Junius, 

 (who is supposed to have perished as a guide 

 in the Arctic Expedition,) one of Junius' s 

 brothers took his wife, and thinking that Au- 

 gustus was displeased with him, and that he 

 possessed the art of conjuring, had determined 

 upon his death, and that this superstitious no- 

 tion had so preyed upon his spirits as to termi- 

 nate his existence. This circumstance, he added, 

 had led a surviving brother to threaten revenge, 

 and supposing that he might come to the Fac- 



