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BRITISH DESIGNS ON THE SPANISH EMPIRE, 1713–1748
2013
Overview
La Vérendrye and his compatriots were not alone in their search for a water route to the west, nor was a great river the only form such a passage might take. In 1731—a year after La Vérendrye’s report “Touching upon the Discovery of the Western Sea”—Arthur Dobbs, Ulster landowner and member of the Irish House of Commons, wrote a seventy-page memoir positing the existence of a Northwest Passage from Hudson Bay to the Pacific and encouraging the Hudson’s Bay Company or the British Admiralty to dispatch ships to look for it. Dobbs used different kinds of evidence to
