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Show 20& BUKVBY OF EASTERN BHORB OF THE LAKE. • and driven in by the Wind. Passing through it, I found it filled with the small black flies, tack numbers of which I had noticed yesterday. In the midst of these were flooks of gulls, ' floating upon . the water and industriously engaged in picking them up, precisely as a. chicken would pick up grains of corn, ahd with the sfcme rapidity of motion. We landed at our first camp- ground near the box- elder tree, about two hours after sunrise, making twenty- foiir* continuous hours that I had sat at the helm, without a moment's respite. A messenger was despatched to the'person in charge of the cattle, rtith directions to drive up the herd, out of which orie wbs selected and tilled. The rest of the crew were engaged in filling the water- vessels from an excellent spring near the shore* * Here I enjoyed the ezquidte luxury o£ washing my face and" hands, for the first time in more than two weeks- water being too scarce an article in the camp. to allow that privilege to any other person than the cook. About eleven o'clock I had the pleasure of meeting my friend and efficient assistant, Lieutenant Gunnison, whom I found busily* engaged in pushing forward t& e field- work Of his portion of the survey, with bis accustomed industry and energy. • Ha had completed the survey of the< eastern side of the lake, and was at the time engaged in that of Antelope Island. He btougfaft nfews of the arrival of the first m& il this year, and a large packet of letters from home. After concerting measures for meeting on the western shore of. the lake, where our surveys were to join, he retqrned to his camp, ilvery preparation being made fo* an early Start in the morning, 1 retired to read my letters and to refresh my weary spirits by repose. Sunday, June 16.- As the party on the flats Was nearly out of water when we left them, and the weather was so uncertain as to render the time occupied in our return'to them equally 89,1 determined to leave to- day; Bounding the north point of Antelope Island, we- called * at the little islet to which we had given the name of Egg Isjahd, to look after our old friends, the gplls and pelicans. The'former had hatched out their eggs, and the inland was full of little, half- fledged ~ younglings, who fled at our approach, atad hid thenfeelvee ujader the first atone thej could find. We caught'several of them, and amused ourselves by- putting them into the water, when they immediately followed the instinct of their natures, and paddled away with their little black feet most assiduously. One poor fellow, about four inches long, driven b^ the extremity of his fear, took to the water |