XL. Particulars of the Country of Labra- 
dore, extracted from the Papers of 
'Lieutenant Roger Curtis, of His Ma - 
Chart of the Coaft. Communicated hy 
the Honourable Daines Barrington* 
Redde, Feb. 34, fTpHERE is no part of the Britifti 
I774 * dominions fo little known as the 
immenfe territory of labe adore. So few have vifited 
the northern parts of this vaft country, that almoft 
from the freights of belle isle, until you come to the 
entrance of Hudson’s bay, for more than ten degrees 
of latitude, no chart, which gave any tolerable idea 
of the coaft, had hitherto been formed. The bar- 
rennefs of the country explains why it has been fo 
feldom frequented* Here avarice has but little to 
feed on. 
Perhaps, without an immoderate fhare of vanity, 
3 may venture to prefume, that,, as far as I have 
been, which is to the latitude of 59 0 io', the 
draught, which I have been able to form, is by 
much the beft that has hitherto been made. 
Others have gone before me, bleft with abilities 
the Otter, with a Plane- 
