| Summary: | Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of America Discovery of North America; early voyages of the Portuguese, French, and Spaniards. First discovery of North America by John Cabot -- Voyages of Sebastian Cabot -- Of the Cortereals -- Discovery of Labrador -- French discoveries -- Voyages of Verazzano -- Of Jacques Cartier -- Discovery of Canada -- Spanish voyages of discovery -- Cortes -- Ulloa -- Alarchon -- Viscaino -- Russian and English voyages. Behring -- Tchirikow -- Cook and Clerke -- Meares -- Vancouver -- Kotzebue -- Hearne and Sir Alexander Mackenzie. Colonisation of Canada -- French fur trade -- Rise of Hudson's Bay Company -- Hearne's three journeys -- North-west Fur Company -- First journey of Sir Alexande Mackenzie in 1789 -- His second expedition in 1792 -- Discoveries along the shores of the Arctic ocean. First and second expeditions of Franklin -- Voyage of Captain Beechey -- Introductory observations to the natural history. Amelioration in the character of European intercourse with uncivilized nations -- The absence of sandy deserts, a grand feature in the physical attributes of America -- General boundaries of the districts afterwards treated of in detail -- Early sources of information regarding the natural history of North America -- General view of the fur countries -- Passages across the Rocky Mountains -- Plains and valleys along the Pacific shore -- The quadrupeds of the northern regions of America. Inaccuracies of some historical writers -- No monkeys in North America -- Bats -- Shrew-mice -- Genus scalops, or shrew-mole -- Other moles of America -- The star-nose -- Various bears -- Different digitated quadrupeds -- The Canada otter -- The sea-otter -- The dogs and wolves of America -- The foxes -- The beaver -- The musk-rat -- Meadow mice and lemmings -- The Rocky Mountain neotoma -- The American field-mouse -- The marmots -- The squirrel tribe -- The Canada porcupine -- The American hare -- The polar hare -- The prairie hare -- The little chief ...
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