_Observations on the Present State
of the Highlands in Scotland_ (published in 1805 and describing the
journey to Prince Edward Island, etc., in 1803); _On the Necessity of a
more Efficient System of National Defence_ (1808); _A Sketch of the
British Fur Trade in North America_ (1816).

The Letter Book of Miles Macdonell--July 27, 1811, to February 25, 1812
(Dominion Archives Report, 1886)--contains ten letters addressed by
Macdonell to Selkirk from Yarmouth, Stornoway, York Factory, and Nelson
Encampment; besides others to various individuals.

In consequence of the disasters which befell the Red River Colony in
1815 and 1816, there appeared in Great Britain _A Statement respecting
the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement upon the Red River in North America,
etc._ (republished by John Murray, {143} London, 1817). In answer to
this the North-West Company put forth _A Narrative of Occurrences in
the Indian Countries, etc._ (1817), to which were appended twenty-nine
documents to substantiate claims made. These works, although written
in a partisan spirit, contain information which cannot be had from any
other source.

The following are also useful: John M'Leod's Diary, 1815; Letter of
Cuthbert Grant to J. D. Cameron, March 13, 1816; North-West Company's
Account Book for Fort Gibraltar, 1815; Governor Macdonell's
Proclamation, January 1814; Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company;
Colonel W. B. Coltman's Report, 1817; A. Amos, _Report of the Trials in
the Courts of Canada relative to the Destruction of the Earl of
Selkirk's Settlement on the Red River, with Observations_ (1820);
_Trials of the Earl of Selkirk against the North-West Company in 1818_
(Montreal, 1819); Notices of the Claims of the Hudson's Bay Company,
and the Conduct of its Adversaries (Montreal, 1817); Chief Justice
Powell's Report _re_ North-West Disputes (Dominion Archives Report,
1897); a pamphlet against Lord Selkirk by John Strachan, D. D. (1816),
and the reply thereto by Archibald Macdonald (1816); the communications
of 'Mercator' appearing in the Montreal _Herald_ (1816); Blue-book on
Red River Settlement (Imperial House of Commons, 1819); Original
Letters regarding the Selkirk Settlement (Manitoba Historical and
Scientific Society, 1889); Lord Selkirk's Treaty {144} with the Western
Indians (_vide_ Appendix to _The Treaties of Canada_ by Alexander
Morris, 1880).

SECONDARY MATERIAL

Since the present story closes with 1821, it is necessary to classify