GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD. FOOTNOTES: [1] Written by Mlle. de Verchères at the request of Governor de Beauharnois. [2] Cf. Extract 14, pp. 28-30 [3] Mackenzie found his situation to be on an arm of "Vancouver's Cascade Canal," part of what is now Burke Channel, about 52° 20′ N. lat. [4] Representative institutions without responsible government. [5] Colonial Secretary in the early part of 1839. * * * * * * Transcriber's note: Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example: reunion, re-union; any one, anyone; casque; inconveniency; embogged; burthen; lenity. Pg 33, 'an oble' replaced by 'a noble'. Pg 44, 'he witholds' replaced by 'he withholds'.