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Show \PPENDl: TO P.\H l' I. . . I . . . . I' tht: ll\ttcr l ~. !tall fllrui-;11 Sp;ll·k ~ \H'0\'1Sl011S. 0 I . I . the, <nnrnllt\.\ tJOn CIIHI n .. tl. mC ~Il Oti I I '\man ac.comp:lliY lllll or ,\ < • I 1 isi>~'Oj) H'llOli; .tlH ,,t" ~ . . r: , ~I ails all(l ·xtra pn'' dn. aJH I . I , llh lnur 01 il\C > • . lay'~ hunt furn1s l .lim ' . {' . n hinL The prm l ~loll!i ( . I at i!:i I ·lt away l Ol . , . • on his n ·turn, tak w h I r II nv in'r proportwn. l·or lotll I . bly to t 1<' to t o f' I must be issucc a~rcc<~ . lk r buA'alne or 60 lhs. IT~ l r f ' ·I \'ClllSOn, c ) () ' . I f (l<l}'!'- N. 80 lhs. o n. .. s 1 • • 1 .. hal l)eriod . The n.:matnc cr o . 1 , < tru·t of s.lit ot t beat nlcat, wtl t ont I • . . 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The < ate o . 1 1 , to ·tcrottltt to .1 11 1., tct t that they will >C rc H ) ' . • r· ·. . tion or n ' pOl'ts, cxccp · . hut le t 110 1n o1 rn.1 . my return is uncct tall\' . .t this place nnt tl one . . 1 ·mel mducc you to qu t ·r 1 frorn \IIHh r n1} on n 1 ' ' 1 I c· I or tlH' river, when, I · 1 1 ro 1 c up at t 1 c 1 .H n"Hmth a.flt: t· the tee )a!> 1 ' . tln t some di..,astrous . · · . . .. sonlhlc to suppo<;e ' am net al'll\c<l, lt ls tt ,\. , . St I ouis You arc tau~ 1l l ' . 1 ·ou m ay repatr to , · • · , CH~nt s cl ctatn us, an< ) I I , United St ate~. pro· . 1 'n my b tl!;ga~e anc t w · to disninnnatc Jctwcc . . T l' . ·went at St. Lou ts, . , The latter deliver to the :l!';Stst.mt 11)1 I ·'?. ':" . . power, tn 1l1GCIt: tin)r.; . . t for the l)amc-thc former, 1( lll ) out l\l'i rcc 'lp ~ 1>.1 · 1 lc the 1\lrs. 1 (C. \' l vith provisions, tu JnC IH Your party i !:> rc~;ulnrly supp L .c ' • , . entitled to <lra\1 8th De rem I> ,U . ' 180";, , only ' fronJ whtch tllnc you ,\1 c of the United Stat~.s. Z . l\L J'n~E, Lt. (~t g nccl) J\PPEND1X TO P 1\HT I. ' . ' [No. 17. J OUSERV 1\TIONS ()s JHJI; l'llAOE, VII".WS1 II. . 0 l'Ol.teY OF THE NO ilTH WI-:ST COM~ J'A ' Y, A:'>D Til~; NATIONAL 01\JEtTS CON l~CT ~; u WlTil 'llll•: lll COMMJ•: Hcl•;1 , \ :; lT l;'( 'J' EH!.!:STS TilE COVEll bii.::N'l' OF T~IJo; L'Nl' 1 En STATE~. Tlii-. fur trade in Cunad.1, has always been considcre<l as an object of the fit·!-lt importuncc to that colony; and ha~ been che risheel by the re ~pcc ti \e ~OVt.: l'llOI':i of tht~t prov ince, uy evc1·y rcgn lat ion in th eir pow ·r, under· both the French <IIHI E ng- lish administrations. The ~;rea l and a1nl0st unlimited inJluenr<.; the traders of that country had acquired over the sHvag-es, \HIS sc v~Tdy felt, and ,.,.ill lonl~ be rcmclllbercd by the citizens on our frontiers. Every attention was paid by tlte c.tbinet or St J ames, in OUI' treaty with Crcat Britain, to secure to their subjects, (the 'anadians) the p1·i,·ikg-e of the Indian trade within out· territories, and with wltat juclg-ntcnt they have improved the ad r:m tag c~ obtained, by the mother co un~ try, time will soon utd'old. In the yei..lr 17G6, the trade was first cxtcnclt'cl from 1\l iclt ilimackinac, to the Jlorth west, by a few dcsp rate c~dvc ntut·<·r-., whose mode of life 011 the vor, gc, and ~hort t·csid ·nee in ci ' ilizctl '>Ocicty, obtained for thc111 1 the appl'llation of" Coureurg dC's Boi ... Frotu those tdlling b<yilli11g·s, a ro~(. the pn·~e nt ll•lrth west comp.llly, who notwith~tandin g- tltl' repeated ,\l lacl,s m.td<' 1111 their trade, h.tvc withstood evct·y shock, and arc now, h I he· coaiitiou of t h1· l..ttc X. Y. cotllpany, established ou so firm a ba~i~, as to bid dd1.tncc to C\ cry oppositiou, which run be made by privat(' ind i\ idunls. Tllry, by a l::lte pur ·base or the kin g-'B posts in Cnnacl.~, ('X I n<l their line of trade from Llud:on's B.ty, to the St. Lawl'cncc, 11p thut l'ivcr ou both side<;, to the L .t kcs-f'rom thence to the ht-acl of L<d ... c ~upct·iot·, at which place the nonh west co111pauy ha,·c dt ...: i• ht·ad <jll<ll'ters; from thcl.CC to the SOIII'CC or Heel ri ver, :llld Ol a ,1!1 its tributut·y streams, thl'ou gh the country to the i\fissouri -tl ,·ou.;h the watct·s of Lake \Vinipic, to the Sask<tsh,t\\ in, on th at l'ivcr to its sont·ce-up Elk rivet· to the lake of the II ills-up P eace r·ivct· to the Hocky 1110untains-from the Jak • of the llil ls, up ~lave ri va..:r to Sla,·c Lake, and tlti~ year have disp.ttch cd u Mr. l\bckc nz1n on~ voyag-e or trade <ltl d discov ery down Mackcn zi •'s rive r, t•l lhc ll OI'tll sea; and abo tl l\lr. 1\l'Coy, to erose; the Hurky lliOUJ llains, and proceed to the WCbll'l'll ocean with tile same object:; ill 'ic w. Tht-y klVc had a ~;cn~lcman hy the n.tme of 'J iwlllpson, rua king- a P"Cographicnl :mrvcy of the nonh west p art of the culltittent-who, lot· |