Book XVII

The reports made by the successful navigators on their return to Europe, concerning the temperature of the climate, the fertility of the foil, and the disposition of the inhabitants, encouraged the society to proceed. The northern nations, that had successively invaded the southern provinces of Europe, had found there the feeds of that new religion, amidst the ruins of an empire that was shaken on all fides. Hudson&s;s bay always has been and is looked upon as the nearest road from Europe to the East-Indies, and to the richest parts of Asia. The intercourse which has subsisted nearly for three centuries between the commercial nations of Europe, and the most remote parts of India, being happily freed from the inconveniencies of a long navigation, would be much quicker, and more advantageous. By stationary fishery we are to understand that which is carried on by the Europeans who have settlements on those coasts of America where the cod is most plentiful.

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