The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-06-30
Correspondence Of the E1press.
r..,terS f,op, the "Northern BOUNDARY of
ro,ya,r by a me II, Der of the Corps of Cooks

est to your readers, ana give our cru -"
hnaue an idea OF what is going on in OFT midst,
beg leave TO present the following leaves
from my journal, embracing weeks life in
camp.
JUNE 18th "A very warm morning Start
ed for the ne 1t station ten miles West. About
noon entered an impossible slough Cur quar-
ternlas,er was here put to his wits ends in order
to get the party over-however, owing to his
skill we regained terra frma. Just as we were
coagra; ulatng ourselves on the happy manner
IN which transit had been effected, dscov- |
cred our M D. on the other side ofthe slough,
having been accidentally left behind Eight
yoke of Oxen and pair Of timber wheels were
forthwith despatched to lis assistance, and in 3
hours time we had the satisfaction Of seeing
him safe over He had been collecting geolog
ical specimen, and lost his way. Encamped at
sun down.
Jusr, l5th.-Rose at day light-heard con-
siderable war Of words, with occasional elacu
lations of"Old red sandstone, "cong'omerate,
sv,rifcd lava &c, &c. ,-feunda discussion
going on as TO whether specimen collected by
our geologist was, or was not, what he asserted
it to bean igneous rock-decided in the aflir-
native (meln: it was afterwards discovered to
be brick which our worthy an. ID. :" had worn
in his hat). The stargazers were very dull to-
day, having been up all night, endeavorng to
obtain the parallax of the Three of our
party had been posted on tree, watching tor
the rising of the constellation of the "sickie )
they were decidedly sek and were handed
over to the Doctor That gentleman having
his hands full at the time, by some mistake,
prescribed cold water, at which the astronomers
crew very wroth and limited that the Maine law
was unconstitutional.
JUNE i6th.-We managed after considerable
difficulty to take the north limb of the Polar
Stars right ascension, by means of the patent
Elongator the variation was great owing to
tie stars eccentric movements. II was impos-
sib!e to ascertain it correctly one of the legs
of the compass was missing, some one having
| appropriated it for fork, or toothpck The
declination of the Magnetic dip we ascertained
to be in $40 40 South longitude, and the zenith
distance being equal to half the abscission OF an
| eclipse determined our whereabouts One OF
| he reported that at the moment OF conclusion
| he distinctly saw the constellation ofthe South
ern cross, the Negotiation clouds, besides many
groups of stars quite new to him.
| JUNE 17th--Anniversary of the Battle OF
Bunkers Hill--took holiday and held meet
ing preparatory to tie proper celebration OF
the 4lh Of July. A chief who was pre-
sent was elected Orator of the day; his
name is "Novukantcumt' and he is President
Of the Buffalo tongue society. This afternoon
party went into the bush; in an hours time
one returned with the pleasing information that
! Buffalo had been shot--tound on enquiry that
this was mistake, our best yoke of oxen had
/ been shot "a, under an impression that they
were either Buffalo, or Elephant. The festiv
tiles wound up with wedding. Oar an. d.
(who by the way should write himself sd. d.
united six Of our party to as many squaws, and
we ended the chapter by giving them all a noble
charvari.
JUNE 18th Found the Doctor very busy
| this morning he had heard it limited that oul
stock Of molasses was very low, and had accor
dinghy set himselfto work to fell a sugar maple
tree, and suggested that it would make barre
Of the glutinous fluid by being properly boilec
down. Two Of the party were sent off to chain
a piece Of land, aud on being requested to use
the four pole cham, first secured number o
ok chains and were removing the requisite
amount of poles from the wagons when they
were called to order. One ofmy brother cook.
cut of piece f"Boundary line, and abstrac
ting pot hook went off on fishing excursion
He was very successful, catching two gudgeon.
and red herring in five hours These were
very good eating, consderin'. Mr.. |. came il
this evening, having succeeded in obtaining
good view of the horizontal equilibrium Of the
suuntilation Of thu sun and Kossuth. He re
ports that the latter came in contact with the
milky way about P. NJ We were soon W
to our eye, in oggy,hingumbobs, calculating
the Standardization Of the antpodes on which
our parallel of longitude is to be measured as
suming X-differential evolution of the Earth
orbit being the 18th quadrsture of RICH
angled is,socles triangle and the CO efficient
of the transmognifcation Of the electric huit
we have the equation KY Z-OK; distract
ing the cube OF the square root (of branch,
forget which, from this, gives us IA miles in j
hours, which progress is some. This is very
ab,ruse theory and should, think, guarante.
us situation in the Thompsonian Institute q
Washington.
JUNE l9th.-Rose earlier than usual-fount
strange looking animal coiled up under til,
large camp kettle; on roofing among the ashes
discovered it to be the mortal remains of on
geologist, who had crept there in search of
warm bertI-about to hold coroner's inquest
but the subject would mt 'stay put in time fo
the jury to assemble. Took the triangular ele
vation of the obtuseness Of the meridian-fount
this impossible without having the due point de
termined-unfortunately the cooks in evapora
ting the water, evaporated quantity of corr
uice and soon reported themselves as LIST rate
thereby giving as the equivocation, due poin
equals A. No. ! (Mem: in taking of No. ]
lhey forgot NO. &. Inc DOCTOR oelng at TIM
i time engaged in series Of interesting expert
ments on his own person, as to what quantity o
spirits will neutralize the poisonous propertle
ofthe virus of the rattlesnake. These scien
tlfic researches now postponed indefinitely
JUNE 20th-Another fine rainy day. Every
body enormously hungry usual. We poo
fellows are abused most shamefully because W.
serve up the fat pork, if it were our fault tina
the pork is so fat Some ofthe party yet hanke
after the good things of the Getty" | foun
o day piece Of paper affixed to the bark Of
zee called by botanists the "Glaucus occideu
tails" which have carefully copied and her
transmit; it is signed you perceive &C. Dys
peptic Poet" and is und; ubtcdIv orr ginai
''Old pork old pork what brought yo
here ?"
|. /" In store they left me many wear,
Till sinking bad from heat and cold,
My mortal remains 10 you they sold