418 COSMOS. 



Mount Regnier,* also written Mount Rainier (lat. 

 46 48') E.S.E. of Fort Nisqually, on Puget's Sound, which 

 is connected with the Fuca Strait. A burning volcano ; 

 according to Edwin Johnson's road-map of 1854, 12,330 

 feet high. It experienced severe eruptions in 1841 and!843. 



Mount Olympus (lat. 47 50'). Only 24 geographical 

 miles south of the strait of San Juan de Fuca, long so 

 famous in the history of the South Sea discoveries. 



Mount Baker,* a large and still active volcano, situated 

 in the territory of Washington (lat. 48 48'), of great 

 (unmeasured ?) height (not yet determined), and regular 

 conical form. 



Mount Brown (16,000 feet?) and, a little more to the 

 east, Mount Hooker (16,750 feet ?), are cited by Johnson 

 as lofty, old-volcanic trachytic mountains, under lat. 52, 

 and long. 117 40' and 119 40'. They are therefore re- 

 markable as being more than 300 geographical miles 

 distant from the coast. 



Mount Edgecombe,* on the small Lazarus Island, near 

 Sitka (lat. 57 3'). Its violent igneous eruption in 1796, 

 has already been mentioned by me (see above, p. 269). 

 Captain Lisiansky, who ascended it in the first years of 

 the present century, found the volcano then unignited. 

 Its height 28 reaches, according to Ernst Hofmann, 3039 

 feet, according to Lisiansky, 2801 feet. Near it are hot 

 springs which issue from granite, as on the road from the 

 Valles de Aragua to Portocabello. 



Mount Fairweather, or Cerro de Buen Tiempo ; accord- 

 ing to Malaspina, 4489 metres, or 14,710 feet high 29 . In 

 lat. 58 G 45'. Covered with pumice-stone, and probably 

 ignited up to a short time back, like Mount Elias. 



The volcano of Cook's Inlet (lat. 60 8'). According 

 to Admiral Wrangel 12,065 feet high, and considered by 

 that intelligent mariner, as well as by Vancouver, to be 

 an active volcano 30 . 



23 Karsten's Arcldv. fur Mineralogie, Bd. i, 1829, s. 243. 



29 Humboldt, Lssai Polit. sur la Nouv. Esp., t. i, p. 266. torn, ii, p. 310. 



30 According to a manuscript which I was permitted to examine in 

 the year 1803, in the Archives of Mexico, the whole coast of Nutka, 

 as far as what was afterwards called " Cook's Inlet," was visited during 

 the expedition of Juan Perez, and Estevan Jose" Martinez, in the year 

 1774. 



