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 and black rabbits; whoe fur is uperior to that of the beaver. The otters and hares I have een, and their kins would be a valuable article of commerce in China.

He further declares, as his decided opinion, that it would prove very diadvantageous to the Spaniards, if the Englih were to form any ettlement to the South of Brazil; there being everal rivers, which communicate with the Wetern ide of America; and he gives a particular decription of the bay St. Fondo, and river Colorado.

This idea, however, had not awakened the attention of any court, till diputes aroe about Nootka Sound, in which I unfortunately, had o great a hare. I cannot pas over in ilence the