Those Exquimaux whom Beanie found 
at Coppermine river (probably when he 
was beyond the farther end of Baffin’s Bay) 
ware, he says, supplied with only Danish 
Goods, “such as the Danes sell in Green¬ 
land.” Why is it thus, unless those two 
rivers empty into straits existing immedi¬ 
ately behind or north of Baffin’s or Hud¬ 
son’s Bay, and communicating therewith r 
If so, the respective mouths of those two 
rivers must exist on some of the inner me- 
ridan-,as represented on my map. 
The Indians told McKenzie, whilst des¬ 
cending the riverf which he discovered, 
that he was proceeding towaids the white 
man’s country, and that two trading ships 
had recently visited white marf’s lake below. 
M’Kenzie found, at the mouth of his 
river, the same kind of white whales that 
are common in the north of Hudson’s Bay. 
He also found the climate apparently cold¬ 
er and the country more sterile at the 
head and mouth of the river than elsewhere 
along the intermediate region. 
None of these few latter particulars, ex¬ 
cept the supply of Danish goods, are more 
strikingly applicable, as a corroboration of 
my theory, than the fact, that the celebra¬ 
ted Indian Chief, Metonobe, Hearne’s guide, 
did, after Hearne’s journey, contend with 
the latter—as t apt. Ross states—that 
Copper Mine river did not exist to the N. 
W. but due north , which accords with my 
principles, as my map shows. 
It would seem, too, that, at the mouths 
of those two rivers, the tides were not 
found to be more high, the sea less fresh, 
nor islands less abundant, than might be 
expected to be the case in the Straits ex¬ 
isting immediately north of Hudson’s and 
Baffin’s Bays. 
I contend as follows, (although 1 may be 
in part mistaken,) viz. That the Grand 
Afhapuscow river and lake, found b 
Hearne, exists very far beyond the appa- 
i rent verge. Hearne marks them on his 
tTh' s River, I find by fair deductions, disen 
bogues nearer the Hudson Bay settlements tha 
Copper-mine river does, and it must const 
quently have been crossed by Hearne, probf 
(>| y on the ice, at a point where he suppose 
‘t to be a Lake. Hearne crossed several lp* 
narrow tracts of water, which he cdliei 
