Plan for promoting the fur trade, and securing it to this country, by uniting the operations of the East-India and Hudson's Bay Companys ...

"A scheme based on Dalrymple's conviction that a northwest passage to the Pacific existed from Repulse Bay. The greater part of the argument concerns geographical discovery and surmise. Contains extracts from the journal of Captain Hanna who visited the northwest coast in the Sea Otter, 17...

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Main Author: Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: London : [publisher not identified] 2022
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0414223
https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0414223
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Summary:"A scheme based on Dalrymple's conviction that a northwest passage to the Pacific existed from Repulse Bay. The greater part of the argument concerns geographical discovery and surmise. Contains extracts from the journal of Captain Hanna who visited the northwest coast in the Sea Otter, 1786."-- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 71-72. ...