38 TIBET.— BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN EXPEDITION. [Nov. 23, 1857. 
Trigonometrical Survey of India, and believe me always very gratefully your 
affectionate attached friend, 
(Signed) A. S. Waugh. 
27th August, 1857. 
I have a good paper on the stocks now, on the Himalaya Peaks, which, I 
think, will do for the Eoyal Geographical Society; but the unsettled state of 
the country, and the inundated state of the roads, make it hazardous to 
forward any valuable documents, while our own precarious position here is 
equally an objection the other way. I hope we shall be able to carry on our 
work without interruption. The Kashmir and Tibet Survey is progressing 
beautifully, and will make a lovely topographical map, which it will do your 
eyes good to behold. Montgomerie and Elliot Brownlow have just fixed two 
peaks on the Kara-Korum, one of which is 27,928 feet high, according to 
their field computations, its distance being 136 miles from our last stations. 
This would indicate the peak to be the 3rd highest yet measured. The 
Kashmir series has twice crossed the snowy range, with two stations each time 
on it. It is syonmetrical and double, and a noble achievement, worthy of your 
successors. 
A. S. Waugh. 
The first Paper read was : — 
1. Progress of the British North American Expedition , under the command 
o/’Capt. John Palliser, f.r.g.s. 
Communicated by the Et. Hon. H. Labouchere, m.p., f.r.g.s., H. M.’s Secretary 
for the Colonies. 
Sault Sainte Marie, 10th June, 1857. 
Sir, — I have the honour to report my arrival here at 4 o’clock 
this morning. 
We started from Liverpool in the Arabia steamer, which left 
England at 3 p.m., May 16th, and landed at New York at 6 p.m. on 
the 28th May. 
Immediately on landing we experienced some difficulty with the 
Custom-house at New Jersey (sic), and subsequently * were enabled 
to pass our instruments through, owing to the kind assistance of Mr. 
Pompelly of New York, whose acquaintance we casually made at 
our hotel next morning. Mr. Pompelly, aided by Mr. Wheatley, 
well known in the scientific world as an accomplished mineralogist, 
accompanied us on the 29th May to the Custom-house, and having 
explained the object of our expedition, and representing it as one 
directed by Her Britannic Majesty’s Government, these gentlemen 
at length succeeded in accomplishing our object of passing the in- 
struments, saddles, guns, &c., but not until they had called on the 
solicitor of the customs and conferred with the superintendent and 
* The American authorities had probably not been apprised of the expedition. 
— Ed. 
