8 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE 



' ' Dr. Gambel journeyed to the upper crossing of the Kansas 

 with a small party of gentlemen from Georgia, Florida and 

 Virginia, after which his company joined Indiana Company, No. 

 1, of which I had command, and continued with us until we 

 reached Ft. Kearney, on the Great Platte. There he separated 

 and joined a company commanded by Capt. Boone, of Kentucky, 

 which followed the trail opened by Hudspith's Company, cross- 

 ing the Sierra near the head of Sacramento Valley. ***** 

 His loss is as sad as it is premature, and he sleeps at peace be- 

 neath the towering pines which cluster on a sunny hillside 

 stretching up from the Rio del Plumas. He has departed early, 

 but not unhonored. Philadelphia owes to his memory a lasting 

 tribune of respect for his science, virtue, worth, talent and 

 energy. 



D. B. Woods. 



As Mr. Meehan says : his lonely grave in what was then the 

 great Pacific wilderness seems, sadly suggestive of the lines of 

 Bryant. 



" Take the wings 

 Of tlie morning, traverse Barca's desert sands 

 Or lose thyself in the continuous woods 

 Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, 

 Save his own dashings — ^yet, the dead are there." 



