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Ruffia expends annually more than 
roo,000 roubles in Englifh beer ; yet 
excellent malt-liquor is made at Mol- 
cow, at Peterfburg, at Riga, and in Li- 
yonia. There are good hops in_ this 
country, but they are cultivated in a very 
few gentlemen’s grounds. 
(Zo be concluded in our next.) 
-—— 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
F it be pour with, as I prefume it to 
be, by your inferting the queries of 
your correfpondent Larinus, concerning 
the 20 tomes of Mémoires de I Académie, 
&c. that they fhould be anfwered, I inform 
him, that he feems in error in faying, 
that thofe 20 tomes were printed by 
Changuion +731; for the three firft tomes, 
were printed in 1719 at Amfterdam, the 
three next by Gofe in 1724; the three 
next in 1731 by Changuion ; the fucceed- 
ing ones by the fame in 1736, 1741, 
1743, in all 20 tomes of the Mémozres ; 
but there are moreover 6 tomes of the 
Hiffoire de l Académie in 1719, and fub- 
fequent dates, befide 2 tomes of the Eloges, 
forming in all 28 tomes, at Amfterdam, 
and containing cnly the firft 13 tomes. of 
the Paris edition in 4to. Thefe, as I 
believe, are not abridgments but copies, 
for I have always found in them the 
fubjeéts referred to by other French au- 
thors; but there being two tomes and 
orem of the Amfterdam edition to one of 
the Paris editions, it is not eafy to find 
in the former the differtations referred to 
by the Paris edition, except by looking 
over the tables until you come at the 
fubjects fought for. Thefe tomes were 
all, which were re-printed at Amfterdam 
until 1769, when a bookfeller in Holland 
purchafed all the copics of the above 
remaining unfold, and continued the work 
in 38 temes more down to the 32 tome 
of the 4to edition, fo that there are 64 
tomes down to the 32d of 4to edition 
bafide the above two tomes of Eloges. 
There are now 45 tomes of the 4to, but 
whether the laft of them be yet re-printed 
in Holland I am ignorant. But there is 
another r2mo edition printed at Paris 
by Pankouke, which comes down to the 
date of 1773 in 10z tomes. If your 
correfpondent has only 20 tomes of the 
Holland edition, he cannot now complete 
phe other eight, except by accident from 
fome fale by catalogue, as they are only 
Mémoires de I’ Academie. 
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fold now in whole fets of 66 tomes, unlefa 
he purchafes the lait 38 tomes along with 
the preceding eight tomes. : 
aa 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ADVANTAGES which the FUR TRAQE 
of the NORTH WEST COAST of AMEs 
RICA offer to GREAT BRITAIN. 
HE repeated voyages made fince the 
fifteenth century to difcover the 
exiftence of a northern paflage between 
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, either 
by failing eaftward round Afia, or wett- 
ward round North America, (by which 
paffage the circuitous route of the Cape 
of Good Hope might be avoided) have 
all tended to throw a negative upon the 
qveftion. Yet, although ail thofé voy- 
ages were unfuccefsful in the main point, 
we owe to them a number of uleful dife 
coverirs, fuch as Newfoundland, and the 
Labradore Coaft ; the Gulph of St. Law- 
rence, and Canada, Hudfon’s Bay, and 
others. Captain Cook’s third voyage, 
beginning in 1776, and ending in 1780, 
was for the chief purpofe of difcoverins 
this paflage, the other views being merely 
accidental, and fabordinate to that main 
defign. It terminated, like all the former 
ones, in a fruftration of the main point ; 
but all the other ends of it were anfwered 
in a manner fuited to the great expecta- 
tions which were formed of the talents. 
of the conductors, Some new difcoveries 
were made, and many errors in the fup- 
poled geography of the globe correéted. 
From the accounts publifhed of that — 
voyage, it appears that fome important 
advantages might be derived to the com- 
merce of this country if a fur-trade were 
to be eftablifhed with the inhabitants of 
the North Wett Coalt of America. 
The natives of Nootka, or King 
George’s Sound, bartered the fkins of 
black’ bears, {ea-otters, wolves, foxes, 
deer, racoons, martins, and pole-cats 
for knives, chiffels, nails, looking-glafles, 
brafs-buttons, or any kind of metal, 
Captain Cook, at parting, received from 
one of the chiefs two very fine beaver 
fkins, and was earneltly importuned to 
pay another vifit, when he would have a 
large ftock of {kins ready. A plain 
proof that there is no want of fkins if a 
market was eftablifhed for them! The 
fur of the fea-otter, acccerding to the 
Ruffian accounts, is fofter and finer than 
that of any other animals known by 
Europeans, and the fkin of a full grown 
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