THE 
EDINBURGH 
PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL. 
Art. I. — Remarhs on the Climate and Vegetable Productions 
of the Hudson's Bay Countries* By John Richardson, 
M. D., Member of the Wernerian Society. Communicated 
by the Author 
T HE following observations have been thrown together, and 
the subjoined tables drawn up, principally with the view of 
' making public the few facts collected during Captain Franklin’s 
late expedition through the Hudson Bay territories, that relate 
to the inquiry so ably prosecuted by Baron Humboldt, into the 
geographical distribution of vegetable forms^ and on which so 
much light has been thrown by the observations of our learned 
countryman Mr Brown. Occasion has also been taken, in the 
course of the paper, to insert as many circumstances relative to 
the climate of these northern countries as were known to us. 
The expedition landed at York Factory, Hudson’s Bay, in 
Lat. 57° Long. 9^°, (a few miles to the westward of the line 
of no variation of the magnetic needle, and nearly in the longi- 
tude assigned by Dr Brewster to one (f the poles of cold, but 23° 
to the southward of it), and travelling on a W.S.W. direction, 
reached Carlton House, on the Saskatchawan, distant in a di- 
rect line, about 430 geographical miles. This place is in Lat. 53° 
Long. 106° W., and lies nearly midway between the Pacific and 
• Read before the Wernerian Natural History Society, 8th and i2d January 
1825. 
VOL. XII. NO. 24. APRIL 1825. 
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