An account of the countries adjoining to Hudson...

An account of the countries adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the north-west part of America :

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London : Printed for J. Robinson ..., 1744.; 227 images, 222 with full-text search

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Creator: Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-1765, author
Fuentes, Bartolomé de, 17th cent.
Middleton, Christopher, d. 1770.
Title: An account of the countries adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the north-west part of America : containing a description of their lakes and rivers, the nature of the soil and climates, and their methods of commerce, &c., shewing the benefit to be made by settling colonies, and opening a trade in these parts, whereby the French will be deprived in a great measure of their traffick in furs, and the communication between Canada and Mississippi be cut off : with an abstract of Captain Middleton's Journal, and observations upon his behaviour during his voyage and since his return
Published: London : Printed for J. Robinson ..., 1744.
Identifier: oocihm.35075
35075
Subject: Hudson's Bay Company.
Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson.
Fur trade -- Canada.
Indigenous peoples -- Hudson Bay region.
Northwest Passage.
Fourrures -- Commerce -- Canada.
Autochtones -- Hudson, Région de la baie d'.
Nord-Ouest, Passage du.
Northwest, Canadian -- Description and travel -- To 1821.
Canada (Nord-Ouest) -- Descriptions et voyages -- Jusqu'à 1821.
Document source: Electronic reproduction.
Notes: "The whole intented to show the great probability of a north-west passage, so long desired, and which (if discovered) would be of the highest advantage to these kingdoms."
ii, 211 pages : illustrations, folded map ; 26 x 22 cm.
Collection: Monographs
Language: English
URL: https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.35075