OF THE FUR TRADE, &c. XXV

The articles neceffary for this trade, are coarfe woollen cloths of dif-
ferent kinds; milled blankets of different fizes; arms and ammunition;
twift and carrot tobacco; Manchefter goods; linens, and coarfe fheet-
ings; thread, lines and twine; common hardware; cutlery and iron-
mongery of feveral defcriptions; kettles of brafs and copper, and fheet-
iron; filk and cotton handkerchiefs; hats, fhoes and hofe; calicoes and
printed cottons, &c. &c. &c. Spirituous liquors and provifions are
purchafed in Canada. Thefe, and the expence of tranfport to and from
the Indian country, including wages to clerks, interpreters, guides, and
canoe-men, with the expence of making up the goods for the market,

form about half the annual amount again{t the adventure.

This expenditure in Canada ultimately tends to the encouragement of
Britihh manufactory, for thofe who are employed in the different
branches of this bufinefs, are enabled by their gains to punchale fuch
Britifh articles as they muft otherwile forego.

The produce of the year of which I am now fpeaking, confifted of the
following furs and peltries :

106,000 Beaver fkins, 6000 Lynx fkins,
21060: Bear {kins, Goo Wolverine fkins,
1500 Fox fkins, 1650 Fifher fkins,
4000 Kitt Fox fkins, 100 Rackoon fkins,
4600 Otter fkins, 3800 Wolf fkins,

17,000 Mufquafh fkins, 700 Elk fkins,

2,000 Marten {kins, 750 Deer ikins,
1800 Mink fkins, 1200 Deer fkins, drefled,

500 Buffalo robes, and a quantity of caflorum.
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