. A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean [microform] : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. 17th. A JOtJRNEY TO THE and, in faft, did all the mifchief they poflibly could to diftrefs the poor creatures they could not murder, and who were ftanding on the flioal be- fore mentioned, obliged to be woeful fpedlators of their great, or perhaps irreparable lofs. After the In
. A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean [microform] : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. 17th. A JOtJRNEY TO THE and, in faft, did all the mifchief they poflibly could to diftrefs the poor creatures they could not murder, and who were ftanding on the flioal be- fore mentioned, obliged to be woeful fpedlators of their great, or perhaps irreparable lofs. After the Indifhs had completed this piece of wantonnefs we fat down, and made a good meal of frefh falmon which were as numerous at the place where we now refted, as they were on the Weft fide of the river. When we had finiihed our meal, which was the firft we had enjoyed for many hours, the Indians told me that they were again ready to affift me in making an end of my furvey. It was then about five o'clock in the morning of the ieventeenth, the fea being in fight from the North Weft by Weft to the North Eaft^ about eight miles diftant. I therefore fet inftant- ly about commencing my furvey, and purfued it to the mouth of the rjyer, which I found all the way fo full of (hoals and falls that it was not navi- gable even for a boat, and that it emptied itfelf into the fea over a ridge or bar. The tide was then out; but I judged from the marks which I faw on the edge of the ice, that it flowed about twelve or fourteen feet, which will only reach a little way within the river's mouth. The tide being out, the water in the river was perfeftly frefti; bu I am certain of its being the fea, or feme branch of it, by the quantity of whalebone and feal-ikins which the Efquimaux had at their tents, and alfo by the number of feals which I faw. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these il
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