The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-07

We made our way with no great diff
Guilty, although the old road was badly
d%elGpidated. Many ofthe bridges across
the gulches were broken down with age,
and we had 10 hunt our way over the
best we could. Often, too, trees had
fallen across the road, and 1t was heces.
sary to search out q path round them.
Through all these viCissltudes, Mr.. Selby
and the old mustang were both 10 Ill.
humor. The horse was mad because 1t
had to 60 when 1t didn't want to, and
MIR. Selby was in no good humor because
the mustang wanted to 60 everyway but
the right one.
Late in the afternoon We came 10 n
small glade at the eastern termination OF
Plateau, and decided to stop there tilt
morning. 1t required three Of Us 10 un.
harness the horse. Two held him while
the third unbuCkled the straps. Then
we turned him out to crop the grass,
and while Prof. Frederick built q fire
and made preparations for the night, Mr..
Selby and l climbed q nelghboring peak
to take, observations.
1t had been my purpose TO take with
me a barometer and a set Of sextants
and levels to take the heights Of noun.
tains and cliffs with; but l was ,disap.
pointed in getting them, and all the in.
strument had was d Thermometer.
However, could take IN altitude with
a Thermometer as well aH with q barome.
ter, by immersIng 1t in boiling water
and noting how high the mercury rises.
The temperature Of boiling water on the
sea level lis about 2l2 degrees. As one
ascepds, the water will boil at lower
and lower temperature, losing on an ay.
erage one degree for every $50 feet Of as.
cent, By this meaus | hoped TO DO able
to take the attitudes Of the various noun
tatns.
But, imagine my yeyation when un.
packed my thermometer 70 find that
the tube was 30 short tliQt the mercury
could not rise above 40 degrees. i
would DO OF no use TO me until should
have gained an altitude Of thirtyelght
thousand feet-eight thousand feet
above the highest mountain ln,the world.
scarcely hoped 10 climb that high on
the Sierra Neyada.
The only plan l could bit upon was q
simple one. That was TO take from the
tube enough mercury so that 1t would
stand n hundred degrees below the
true tempeFatpre. ] could do this by
holding the theTmpneter In q stream o.
water, the temperature Of which was 81,
and then taking mercury from the tube
till II stood 40 below zero. That was lOC
degrees below the true temperature
Our camping place was about 1000 feet
above the sea, and the peak 10 which
Selby and | climbed was 5000.
GETTING EXPERIENCE,
We built us a FIRE and slept that night
rolled In our blankets like soldiers. Ny
companions worked an hour Cuttingpint
branches 10 make themselves a soft bed
TO sleep on but I kneY better than that
I. ! was an older hand ip The aFt.oE CQmI
life than. they, andI laughed to mysel!
40 / quietly waited for results. l did
not walt Ii vain. They soon grew rest
less, and al length began 10 innrmuf ant
lament. The lbpe brush did not make
!, AZ soft o couch as they had Thought for
rested delightfully."- on Tie ground
wrapped IN my blanket. ExberIenCt
had taught me that when one IL camp
Ing, he wants no trash for a bed. LRaveI
and grass arc good enough but brush Il
I worse than nothing, II soon becOtnel
but llttla kptteF than 0 rack Of torture
: TO sleep well, oil stilkpi sand and tur
must DO BCtaped away, and the. blanke
spread on the smooth ground. Boot
my friends began 70 complain, and grad
uRliy tho complaint grey louder ant
moro earnest, TAep each accused thu
other Of having PIT ia the bed btanChe
TOO large. Each denied Il ylcionSly inI
y al length The couch Of pine btubh va
n dragged of and thrown on Tue fire, Al
Tor that, all was quiet, and We Blep
Souhdly I'LL the dawn Of day.
After q united effort, the old nuStAn
was bstnessed 10 the cart and we wet
once more upon tho road toward the cas-
Tie land RI6ped on toRayd 4 deep va
iey beyond 10, and when We had to9et
Cd the creek, about nine ia the tnornlnl
we found II quite large stream lowlpg
toward the GOulh, was lat1OuP ]
early dave ioFlls mines, ancient digging
loi which allIl remain 10 eloE where "
gold was once sought TOT, we Also pA'