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The Mountaineer 
But it is not merely the colossal beauty of the Sierra, Niagara, 
and the Hudson that should be preserved and enhanced, but the beauty 
of city, town, and hamlet. What is needed is the inculcation, by every 
agency, of beauty as a principle, that life may be made happier and 
more elevating for all the generations who shall follow us, and who 
will love their country more devotedly the more lovable it is made. 
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Governor Hughes in speaking at the dedications of the Palisades 
Interstate Park said, “Of what avail would be the material benefits 
of gainful occupation, what would be the promise of prosperous com- 
munities, with wealth of products and freedom of exchange, were it 
not for the opportunities to cultivate the love of the beautiful?” 
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The United States Geologic Survey has finished its preliminary 
work for the final mapping of Mount Rainier Natural Park. Accurate 
surveys to determine the exact altitude of Mount Rainier were run 
last summer. The true height will be announced next year it is ex- 
pected. In this connection the following letter from the United States 
Geological Survey relating to the height of Mount Rainier and others 
is of considerable interest. “The elevation of only one of the three 
mountain peaks named by you has been determined by spirit leveling, 
namely, Mount Whitney, California, 14,501 feet, plus or minus one foot 
correction, above mean sea level. 
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The Sierra Club Bulletin very pleasingly reviews President Meany’s 
work, ‘“Vancouver’s Discovery of Puget Sound.’ “The State of Wash- 
ington,” the review continues, “is fortunate in numbering among its 
citizens a man whose careful and earnest research is rescuing from 
oblivion many interesting facts of its early history.” 
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The review of Dr. Lyman’s book, “The Columbia River,’ has a 
flow like the river itself. “Running water, with its unending, resist- 
less striving towards unknown goals, has for many of us a certain 
mysterious allure, rivaled perhaps, among all the forces of nature, 
only by the tides of the sea. The child who sets his fragile play-craft 
adrift in the way-side gutter, the fisherman in whose ears the song 
of the river rings all through the city-bound months of the year, the 
poet who finds his inspiration in the onward rush of mighty waters— 
are but a few of those who confess themselves subject to its charm. 
And so to many readers of William Denison Lyman’s recent book, 
‘The Columbia River,’ will make instant appeal.” 
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The current number, November, 1910, of the National Geographic 
Magazine is a particularly creditable number. The illustrations in- 
clude forty color plates of unusual beauty illustrating scenes in Korea 
and China. 
