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 are, I preume, pretty generally known. My long-boat, which was not more than twenty-eight feet in the keel, coated it in the depth of winter and in a tempetuous climate, from 38° North to 50° North; and part of the ame coure back to rejoin me. The greatet part of the cargoes of hips voyaging to the North Wet Coat of America, have been collected in boats. The long-boat of the hips I commanded in my firt voyage thither, coated from 60° North, many leagues to the Southward, as well as in various bays and inlets which the hip could not enter; whereby a more particular knowledge of that country has been obtained, as will appear on the publication of Capt. Vancouver's voyage. The known pirit of enterprie and peculation, poeed by the Britih merchants, and which is not equalled, by thoe of any other nation, will again hew itelf, when a peace takes place; and the inland countries in the Southern parts of America, including the Eat and Wet coats of Patagonia, Straits of Magellan, and Terra Del Fuego, will, I doubt not, be travered and explored, from the information of Mr. Falkner, who reided near forty years in that country, and publihed an account of his travels in 1774. He remarks, that the Eatern coats abound with otriches, whoe feathers are known to be o valuable, beides otters, hares, rabbits, and other animals, yielding fur. He likewie mentions the articles of trade neceary for the Indians, and decribes the Wetern ide as abounding alo with otriches, as well as hares of an extraordinary ize,