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i6 from the Ihore, and a little way round the iilands and 
fhoals. 
u By the time I had completed this furvey, it was about 
u one in the morning of the 18th; but in thefe high la- 
66 titudes, and this time of the year, the fun is always a 
“ good height above the horizon. It then came on a thick 
u drizzling rain, with a thick fog; and, as finding the river 
u and fea, in every refpeft, not likely to be of any utility, 
“ I did not think it worth while to wait for fair weather, to 
“ determine the latitude exactly by an obfervation. But, by 
u the extraordinary care I took in obferving the courfes 
u and diftances, walked from Congeeathawhachaga , where 
“ I had two good obfervations, the latitude may be de- 
u pended on, within twenty miles at fartheft.” 
From the map which Mr. Hearne conftrudted of the 
country through which he paffed, in this lingular journey, 
and which we have been permitted to copy upon our gene¬ 
ral chart, it appears that the mouth of the Copper-mine 
River lies in the latitude 7 2°, and above 25 0 Weft longitude 
from the fort, from whence he took his departure *. 
The confequences refulting from this extenlive difeovery, 
are obvious. We now fee that the continent of North Ame¬ 
rica ftretches from Hudfon’s Bay fo far to the North Weft, 
that Mr. Hearne had travelled near thirteen hundred miles 
before he arrived at the fea. His moft Weftern diftance 
from the coaft of Hudfon’s Bay was near fix hundred 
* Mr. Hearne’s journey, back from the Copper-rrffne River, to Fort Prince of Wales, 
lafted till June 30, 1772. From his firft fetting out till his return, he had employed 
near a year and feven months. The unparalleled hardfhips he buffered, and the effential 
- fervice he performed, met with a fuitable reward from his matters, and he is now the Go¬ 
vernor of Fort Prince of Wales, where he was taken prifoner by the French in 17825 
and laft fummer'returned to his ttatien. 
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