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40 RODERIC MCKENZIE
" Lesieur goes to Canada this year for the benefit of his health.
Fr8derit.:, whom you saw at the Portage, goes in for him.
Lafrance retires with 12,000 fro Mr. Leroux is hired for five years
at £[ 00 Mr. Thomson also, and I think Cu thbert Grant, is on
the condition I offered Mr. McLeod. 111'. Thorburn is for three
years; so yon see the N orl.h is well fixed for some time to come.
" Messrs. McTavish and Small left the other side some time
before my arrival from Lac La Pluie, for which I am very sorry,
because I am afraid I shall not be able to see the former in
Canada. He left me a very kind note expressing a desire that I
should make Mr. Frobisher's my home 'while at Montreal.
" I have some idea of crossing the Ocean but this 1 cannot
determine at present. However it is my fixed determination, if
I live and be in health, to meet you next Spring at Lac La Pluie.
Though my absence be thus short, I can assure you that I leave
my friends in this country with much pain.
" Give my compliments to Mr. Turner, the English astronomer,
and tell him J am sorry I cannot have the pleasure of his company
this winter ............................................................... ..
" Dear Roderic,
" Forks Peace River, 10 January 1793.
Mr. A. " I did not intend to write you before the return of the
MacKenzie
prep:,res express, 'which I am impatient to see arrive ............................ .
for hIS
overland " I forgot at the Lake the account taken of the goods last
voyage.
Fall, also Atkinson's epitome of Navigation with.-----
Chemistry, 2 va Is., and send me the sextant (1) with all the
quick silver you have, as I have lost all mine.
" I have been so occupied with the company's affairs, that 1
have not been able to do anythiug for myself. I worked once
(1) Sir A. MacKenzie's sextant and chronometer are still preserved in the family
at Terrebonne.