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for the purpose of extending the spermaceti whale fisheries and other objects of commerce by ascertaining the ports bays harbours and anchoring births[!] in certain islands and coasts in those seas at which the ships of the British merchants might be refitted

To which are prefixed an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786 from Bengal in the ship Nootka; observations on the probable existence of a north west passage; and some account of the trade between the north west coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain

in the years 1789 and 1793 With a preliminary account of the rise progress and present state of the fur trade of that country