gossip declared that he had gone to New York,

where he probably arrived about midsummer,

1848. Mr. Oliver Beauvoir thinks that he crossed

to the States in company with a distinguished

scientific gentleman, Professor Titus Peebles.

Within a year after his departure news came that

he had gone to California with Professor Peebles;

this was about the time gold was discovered in the

States. That the present Sir William Beauvoir

did about this time actually arrive on the Pacific