Letter from Duncan Campbell to his Mother, 13 July 1838
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Abstract
This letter was written while Campbell was stationed at Fort Henry. A letter dated at Kingston, July 13, 1838, is four pages and \ndescribes his journey to Kingston, which involved some time in Niagara Falls. Campbell writes that “We have shifted our quarters about 600 miles to the eastward & the Regt has at last got all together again at Kingston…We had a very pleasant trip of it down here thro the big lakes & touched at several places on the lake Erie coast to get fuel for our Steamer…After getting to \nChippawa (a small town at the east end of the Lake Erie within a mile of Navy Island, where Mackenzie took shelter during the winter) we left our Steamer & marched across to Lake Ontario, passing that nice little cascade that \nperhaps you may have hear of (viz the Falls of Niagara, which the road passes close by). Derinzey & I got leave to remain behind for a day & we saw as much as we could of that wonder of the World. It is quite needless for me to attempt to describe them. We were both smitten with amazement of no ordinary nature. One part of the performance that most of the visitors to the \nfalls go thro is getting underneath the sheet of water, that is getting between it & the immense rock it tumbles over. I cannot say I relished that part of the fun, for the smallest stumble will pitch you into the chaldron wh. wd. be unpleasant to say the least of it. Ten miles below the Falls we got onto another steamer, wh. took us to Toronto, where we [kept] two days…” (Transcription is provided)
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.155 | 0.070 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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