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northwest Noun 1. the direction midway between north and west 2. the northwest any area lying in or towards the northwest Adjective also northwestern 1. (sometimes cap) of or denoting that part of a country or area which lies in the northwest 2. situated in, moving towards, or facing the northwest 3. (esp. of the wind) from the northwest Adverb in, to, or towards the northwest northwesterly adjadvn Northwest Noun the Northwest the northwestern part of England, esp. Lancashire and the Lake District
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John Jacob Astor to establish an American emporium for the fur trade at the mouth of the Columbia, or Oregon River; of the failure of that enterprise through the capture of Astoria by the British, in 1814; and of the way in which the control of the trade of the Columbia and its dependencies fell into the hands of the Northwest Company. This is the ninth of October, and they have not found her yet: they will as soon find the Northwest Passage. IN THE COURSE of occasional visits to Canada many years since, I became intimately acquainted with some of the principal partners of the great Northwest Fur Company, who at that time lived in genial style at Montreal, and kept almost open house for the stranger. |
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