since. I find that he was farther in the concave 
than Mackenzie, Davis, Baffin, R 0 sg or Parry 
He found & climate where men were abundant, 
ha PPy# healthy, and long-lived ; and tr«es and 
animals very large and thrifty. Upon the whole, 
I find grounds to conclude that both animals ' 
and vegetables are larger and more thrifty, as 
well as more various in kinds, within than with¬ 
out the sphere. 
Lake Superior is represented by number 14, 
and Quebec by 15—16 represents Boston—17 
New-York—18 Philadelphia—19 New-Orleans— 
20 Gulf of Mexico—21 Cincinnati and Newport 
22 St. Louis—23 the isthmus of California— 
24, 24, the North-west Coast—25 Lake 
Winnepig—26 Slave Lake—27, a bent dart, 
represents a portion of Mackenzie’s river—the 
point of the dart representing the mouth— 
which river is previously united with the Grand 
Athapuscow river, (coming from the inner tro- 
ical regions on the left.) Mackenzie’s river 
may be delineated in conformity to this loca¬ 
tion of its mouth, and yet be drawn on the very 
same courses Mackenzie records or nearly so, 
the longitude will, however, count greater 
than he counted,—28 the Athapuscow Lake,— 
29 a portion of the Grand Athapuscow river,— 
30, a bent dart, represents a portion of Hearne’s 
Copper Mine river, the point of the dartre- 
presenting the mouth. I lay down this river 
as being beyond Mackenzie’s, which is contra¬ 
ry to all the maps hitherto published. It is 
also placed to the N. E, of Hudson’s Bay in¬ 
stead of N. \V., perhaps it may empty as low 
down as O in “ SYMMESONIA.” It appears 
plainly, to me, that Hearne must have crossed 
Mackenzie’s river before he reached either 
Copper river or Athapuscow Lake : the wind¬ 
ing of the parallels of latitude brought him 
round towards the head of Baffin’s Bay, when 
he thought he was proceeding in almost a con¬ 
trary direction, h'i3 most general course being 
west and north-west. He has not even once 
informed us of the variation of his compass, I 
presume it was nearly the same as that Capt. 
Parry found on his voyage in 1820, as mention¬ 
ed in the Edinburgh or Monthly Review : the 
journal of Capt. Parry’s voyage I have not vet 
seen. J 
Queries . Were not the seas (or more proba¬ 
bly jtraits)whichHearne and Mackenzie found 
fresh. Did they not both find the shores of 
those seas or straits inhabited by Esquimaux, 
a people whose known and proper country lies 
along the north-eastern shores of America; and 
had not the Esquimaux seen by Hearne, such 
goods as the Danes sell in Greenland, and none 
such as the British sell at Hudson’s Bay <* And 
1C not Hearne and his Indian guide Melonobe, 
