...spirit, such a trade could not have become so extended and advantageous, as it has been am! now is, " In 1788, the gross amount of the adventure for the year did not exceed 40,000!. : but by the exertion, enterprise, and industry of the proprietors, it was brought in eleven...

...by the rapid prosperity to which it speedily attained. ' In 1788,' says Sir Alexander Mackenzie, ' the gross amount of the adventure for the year did not exceed L.40,000 ; but by the exertion, enterprise, and industry of the proprietors, it was brought in eleven...

...with those of their employers. In the year 1788 the total amount of the Company's capital was only forty thousand pounds, but by the exertion, enterprise, and industry of the proprietors, it more than tripled itself in eleven years, and as an investment surpassed anything known in America....

...whatever was in dispute, or specially coveted. But, to return to the story, In 1788, says Mackenzie, the gross amount of the adventure for the year did not exceed £40,000, but, by the exertion, enterprise and industry of the proprietors, it was brought, in eleven...

...spirit, such a trade could not have become so extended and advantageous, as it has been and now is. In 1788, the gross amount of the adventure for the...and upwards ; yielding proportionate profits, and * This might be properly called the stock of the company, as It included, with the expenditure of the...

...spirit, such a trade could not have become so extended and advantageous, as it has been and now is. In 1788, the gross amount of the adventure for the...yielding proportionate profits, and surpassing, in short, any thing known in America. Such, therefore, being the prosperous state of the company, it, very naturally,...