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reservation in the State of Washington. It is the 
Mount Rainier Reservation, named for the famous 
mountain which it includes. A large area, including 
the mountain, is now a National park. Mount Rain- 
ier (14,520 feet), like most of the peaks of this great 
range, is an extinct volcano, with a crater at its sum- 
mit. This mountain still emits heat and sulfurous 
fumes. On its sides are glaciers and cascades. Mr. 
Bailey Willis, in an article in the Forester, on the 
Mount Rainier National Park, is authority for the 
following: 
“ The first suggestion for the establishment of a 
Rainier National park came from two widely tray- 
eled foreigners. In 1883 they visited Mount Rainier, 
the one, Prof. Karl Zittel, of Munich, a geologist 
familiar with all the aspects of Europe; and the 
other, the Hon. James Bryce, a member of the Eng- 
lish Alpine Club, and a traveler whose mountaineer- 
ing conquests included Ararat. In a joint letter 
these gentlemen wrote: 
“<The scenery of Mount Rainier is of rare and 
varied beauty. The peak itself is as noble a moun- 
tain as we have ever seen, in its lines and structure. 
The glaciers which descend from its snow-fields pre- 
sent all the characteristic features of those in the 
Alps, and though less extensive than the ice streams 
of the Mont Blane or Monte Rosa groups, are, in 
