An Account of Six Years Residence in Hudson's-Bay

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Excerpt from An Account of Six Years Residence in Hudson's-Bay: From 1733 to 1736, and 1744 to 1747 Company had thus negleéted the improvement of their own trade, and difcouraged a more extenfive one by induf'triou¿y preventing people from fettling about the Bay, and improving the lands and fifheries there, they had not taken care to check the incroachments of the French, who are daily increafing and extending their Fur-trade within land to the fouth-wefiward and weftward of the bay, among the lakes and near the fources of the feveral rivers upon which the Company have made fettlements. The chief trading cities and towns of Great Britain, therefore, from a jull concern for their own interefi and the interel't of their country, which are infeparably united, in the year 1749 peti tioned the parliament againl'c the Company's charter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.