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The North-West Passage by land / Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains cover

The North-West Passage by land / Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains

Chapter 26: Transcriber’s Notes
By Viscount William Fitzwilliam Milton
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The narrative recounts an overland expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific across British North America, following river routes, prairie trails, and a northern Rocky Mountain pass into British Columbia. It details travel logistics, encounters with Indigenous peoples and mixed‑heritage communities, and episodes of canoeing, hunting, and weather‑driven hardship such as storms, pests, and scarce provisions. Descriptions move from fertile Red River country through forests and mountains, combining practical route observations, maps and illustrations, and reflections on the region’s settlement potential and the value of a land communication artery to the Pacific.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

Footnotes, originally at the bottoms of pages, have been collected, renumbered, and moved to the end of the book. “Andrè” was accented that way consistently.