CHAPTER XXI.--1725-1742.

System of Licenses re-adopted by the French -- Verandrye Sets Out for the Pacific -- His Son Slain -- Disappointments -- He reaches the Rockies -- Death of Verandrye -- Forts in Rupert's Land -- Peter the Great and the Hudson's Bay Company -- Expeditions of Bering -- A North-West Passage -- Opposition of the Company to its Discovery -- Dobbs and Middleton -- Ludicrous distrust of the Explorer -- An Anonymous Letter. 240