A voyage round the world; but more particularly to the north- west coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon . hours, and many of them made bytheir women. I SHALL now take leave of my Indian traders, andfor the laft time of the American coaft. The ineftimablevalue of their furs will ever make it a deiirable trade, andwhenever it is eftablillicd upon a proper foundation, and afettlement made, will become a very valuable and lucrativebranch of commerce. It would be an eafy matter for eitherGovernment or our Eaft
A voyage round the world; but more particularly to the north- west coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon . hours, and many of them made bytheir women. I SHALL now take leave of my Indian traders, andfor the laft time of the American coaft. The ineftimablevalue of their furs will ever make it a deiirable trade, andwhenever it is eftablillicd upon a proper foundation, and afettlement made, will become a very valuable and lucrativebranch of commerce. It would be an eafy matter for eitherGovernment or our Eaft India Company to make a fettle-ment of this kind ; and the thinnefs of the inhabitants willmake it a matter of eafy pradicability ; and as the Com-pany arc under the neceffity of paying the Chinefe incafh for their teas, I look upon it a fettlement on this coaftmight be affedled at a very inconfiderable expence, whichwould more than pay them for every article that is broughtfrom Cliina. Another convenience likely to accrue, isfrom a well-known enterprifing charadler having, if hemeets with proper encouragement from the country, in-tentions %J^CndHr-A^^rfn-^^^ynautryi. ^ydUrj/yVj. j\r. f.
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