[I] The latter valley was evidently the one that, judging from its general bearing, would be most likely to afford a pass in the direction wished for. I therefore tried to induce the Indians I had with me by every possible persuasion to accompany me all the way across the Selkirk Range, and make for Wild-Horse Creek. (The Columbia River Indians would, from the first, only engage to go as far as the head waters of the Ille-celle-waet.) All my efforts were, however, unavailing, as they affirmed that if we went on we should be caught in the snow and never get out of the mountains.--_Mr. Moberly to Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works, 18th Dec., 1855._ [J] This meeting was held on October 11th. As a result the Standard Hour system went into force throughout North America on the 18th November following. [K] Vide Sessional Papers, Province of Canada. [L] The fisheries, only in their infancy, already employ 60,000 men and boys. [M] Cabot landed on the coast of Labrador 24th June, 1497. Columbus did not see this continent till the following year. He discovered the West India Islands in 1492-3-4. Transcriber’s Notes The original book contained an unusually high frequency of typographical and spelling errors. Missing periods generally have been remedied, but apparently misspelled words have been changed only when correctly-spelled (according to dictionaries when this ebook was produced) versions of those words also occur. Ambiguous hyphenation has been retained; unbalanced quotation marks have been corrected when the intent was clear, and otherwise have not been remedied. Page 19: “Rev. Mr. Townend” is spelled “Townsend” in the Index. The latter seems more likely to be correct, so both have been retained. Page 70: Unmatched closing quotation mark removed after “these sentiments.” Page 268: “There Al. and I stood;” was printed with the period after “Al”. Pages 361-362: “balsaltic” should be “basaltic”, but as it was misprinted that way twice, and only printed as “basaltic” once, both spellings have been retained here. Page 372: “Dacota” was printed that way. Page 434: The reference to the footnote was missing. Based on the context of the page and the footnote, the reference has been added after the first occurrence of the name “Cabot”. The Index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references, except for three whose page numbers did not exist: “457” changed to “417”; “458” to “158”; and “613” to “413”. In the Index, some periods, commas, and semi-colons were changed for consistency, but not enumerated in these notes. When words in the Index were spelled differently than on the pages they referenced, and this was noticed by the transcribers, the Index entry spellings were changed, except for “Townsend” as noted above. Page 447: “Potlach” refers to two pages. On page 306, it is spelled “potlatch”; on page 390, it is spelled “pot-laches”.