Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Sept. 24. The project of establishing colonies on the North-West parts of America, though it seems at present to be the favourite topic of the people of England, must be considered indeed as truly chimerical. In arriving at this remote part, and returning back, a voyage of more than the circumnavigation of the globe must be made, and without numerous colonies that country could never be cultivated, or its trade worth pursuing. If the North-East or North West passage to China and the East-Indies be discovered, it must then turn out a matter of the most important concern; but nature, with a jealous hand, has barred these passages with the invincible obstacle of eternal ice.--The Russians are the only people that can form settlements in these quarters, and derive essential benefit from the same. As to the sea otter skins that abound in these parts, they may indeed turn out to great profit, but they could not possibly be procured in such abundance as to compensate the risque and expence of such a voyage.