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features as soft as those of an European; Whereas the people of the Esquimaux nation are by the accounts of all travellers, the ugliest of men, of the harshest and most disagreeable features, and all covered with hair. She is certainly not mistaken in the situation of the country which she gives, for it is certainly a very cold country; and the people which she describes as living in the neighbourhood of her nation, can be no other than the Esquimaux; and when we add to this, what travellers tells us of a certain race of people who are fair, of smooth skins, and soft features, living in the country of Labrador, upon the East side of Hudson bay, in the neighbourhood of the Esquimaux; we can hardly doubt but that Mademoiselle le Blanc is one of that race of people, and that her native country is the coast of Hudson's bay, considerably to the north of Nova Scotia, the principal of the British settlements in North America.
The 16th, day of June, in the year 1732, was baptised by me, after
