King of forty leagues of this coast[.] They keep aloof from every other trader[.] At their factory where they have erected some elegant building and have a preacher of the Gospel they exchange their commodities with the Eskimaux for Oil Bears Martens & foxes[.] The distance of this settlement from Quebec is reckoned five hundred leagues[.]

The Country of which I have been drawing the limits is perhaps the part the least favoured by nature in point of climate and soil of the habitable globe[.] Man was placed here to exercise his carnivorous appetite only by preying upon the inferior animals around him – for the soil, composed of moss sand and rock, is too sterile and the climate too cold to produce a substitute for satisfying the cravings of hunger[.] And often does he poor miserable sinner' retire to his hard cold bed without a supper – and leave it next day morning without a prospect of procuring for himself and family a breakfast a dinner or any of the other common necessaries of life[.] Very few sights I believe can

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