[23]This is the denomination of the bottom of Hudson’s Bay to the southward of Cape Henrietta Maria.
[24]The Beluga.
[25]The account of the above transaction was derived from the most indubitable authority.
[26]Memoirs of Mrs. Mary Robinson.
[27]See the account of Expeditions through the North-West Continent of America to the Pacific Ocean.
[28]The infant colony is called by his Lordship, Osna Boia (two Gaelic words signifying Ossian’s Town), from the resemblance between that and the Indian name of Red River—Asnaboyne.
[29]See [Appendix B].
[30]It is astonishing, that, before the return of the ships, the whole of the drift ice in the Straits disappeared.
[31]I should have before mentioned, that the Prince of Wales did not arrive at York Flats until the day after our ship.
[32]As it may be amusing to some people, I have added a few thermometrical observations made at Oxford House, in the year 1811.—See [Appendix C].