The National review - v. 13 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. III.—THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. Narrative of the Canadian Bed-River Exploring Expedition qfi857, and of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Expl... more »oring Expedition 0/1868. By Henry Youle Hind, M.A., F.R.G.S. London: Longman and Co., 1860. Papers relative to the Exploration by Captain Palliser of that portion of British North America which lies between the Northern Branch of the River Saskatcheman and the Frontier of the United States, and between the Red ffiver and the Rocky Mountain. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, 1859. Further Papers relatwe to the Exploration by the Expedition under Captain Palliser of tlutt portion of British North America tvhich lies between the Northern Branch of the River Saskatchewan, and the Frontier of the United States, and between the Red River and the Rocky fountains, and thence to the Pacific Ocean. 1860. We have hitherto known but little of the interior of our North- American possessions. Such information as we have had upon the subject has been derived either from the occasional notices of Arctic explorers, who have rested at the Hudson's Bay Company's posts in the course of a hurried journey to more northerly regions, or from the statements of the Company's servants. From neither of these sources could we look to obtain any very reliable data. The first kind of evidence was that of mere passing travellers; the second, that of men who, though they had passed their lives in the country, had yet been accustomed to keep their attention fixed on the fur-trade, and who had naturally cared little to spend either time or thought in experiments unconnected with, if not absolutely hostile to, that all-absorbing object. Mr. Hind's narrative, and Captain Palliser's letters to the Colonial Office, are therefore the first contrib...« less