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transferred the name Destruction to the island and have restored the 
Indian name Hoh to the river. You have had the pleasure of crossing 
the glacier on Mount Olympus where that river has its source. 
In 1778, James Cook discovered and named Cape Flattery and in 
1792, George Vancouver sailed along this very shore and gave to 
yonder cape its name of Point Grenville. 
On this journey we have often seen at a distance the three beau- 
tiful peaks so familiar to dwellers on the shores of Puget Sound. I 
refer to Mount Constance, Mount Ellinor, and The Brothers. Those 
names were given by George Davidson in 1857. He became the Grand 
Old Man of Pacific Coast geography. For nearly half a century he 
was in charge of the United States Coast Surveys on these shores. 
During his lifetime he would only say that he had named his survey 
brig the “R. H. Fauntleroy,” for whom he also named Fauntleroy Cove, 
and that the names of the three Olympic peaks were given in honor 
of members of the Fauntleroy family. When Mr. Davidson died, a 
year or two ago, it was learned that a year after he had named those 
peaks he became the husband of Ellinor Fauntleroy. So one of the 
smaller but best known of these peaks was named by a young surveyor 
after his sweetheart. 
In 1890, Governor Elisha P. Ferry announced that the Olympic 
Peninsula comprised the greatest area within the United States proper 
that still remained unexplored. That announcement caused the Seattle 
Daily Press to send through these mountains what has since been 
known as the Press Exploring Expedition. I was designated treasurer 
of the expedition and went with it part way up the Elwha river. 
That is the reason that the leaders of the expedition gave my name 
to one of the many peaks they named and charted. Some but not all 
of the names they gave have remained. Among them are those of 
some of the mountains you have just been climbing, such as Mount 
Seattle, Mount Barnes, Mount Christie, and Mount Meany. The ex- 
pense of that expedition was borne by Mr. W. E. Bailey, owner of the 
Seattle Daily Press. His name was given to the range that includes 
Mount Barnes. I sincerely hope that Bailey Range will be continued 
in use as one of the Olympic names. 
You may be interested to know that part of the program of that 
expedition was the sending of signals from the highest peaks. At 
the Seattle end, on the agreed night, I climbed to Seattle’s highest 
building, the old University, and, with the fine telescope loaned by 
Arthur A. Denny, kept watch all night. There were no signals. Weeks 
later we got a message from Grays Harbor explaining the failure of 
the signals. One of the pack-mules had fallen over a cliff and with it 
went the red fire. Soon after that accident the men turned loose 
their other mule and came on through the mountains with their 
