Nearly every great mineral discovery of America was preceded by the predictions of the fur trader. It will be interesting to watch if Hearne’s copper mine is ever re-discovered.
The story of Ross and Tomson and Farrant, I found first in the minutes of H. B. C. House and then in Umfreville’s account of life at York.
I have throughout referred to Prince of Wales Fort as Churchill, as the constant changing of names confuses the reader.
From the records it is impossible to tell whether the post Whale River was Little Whale, or Great Whale. Judging from the fact that the journey was performed by dog-sled in a night, to Richmond, it must have been the nearer post.
I have not referred to the mistake in latitude made by Hearne in his journey North, for which so many critics censure him. It would be interesting to know how many men would have been in a condition to take any observation at all after a week’s sleepless marching and the horrors of the massacre.