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about level with the tops of the granite walls of the canyon. This 
fact strongly corroborates the theory that the old valley was filled 
with gravel that forced the river to the east, onto the granite upland. 
vy st after emerging from the canyon the traveler may get, on the 
t (left), a magnificent view of a part of what is frequently 
walled the Collegiate Peaks or the Collegiate Range, from the fact 
that the three most prominent summits visible from this part of the 
valley are known as Princeton, Yale, and Harvard.” The view on 
the left also includes Mount Shavano, which is the next high peak 
south of Mount Princeton. These peaks are peculiarly situated, as 
they do not form a part of the Continental Divide but stand dis- 
tinctly east of that crest, and the larger streams heading in the range 
cut through this outer line of peaks in great canyons that are very 
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striking features. One of the deepest of these cuts, the canyon of 
Chalk Creek, which the traveler may see on the left, separates Mount 
Shavano on the south from Mount Princeton on the north. The 
view of Mount Yale as seen from this point and represented in 
the sketch (fig. 22) is the best to be obtained from the rail- 
road, for north of this point the big shoulder on the east side 
* The history of the naming of these | mann’s Mitteilungen (1871). The 
peaks is given below in the words of | highest summit that he found (14,399 
Prof. W. M. Davis, of Harvard Uni- | f 
versity : 
In the summer of 1869 Prof. J. D. | was named Mount Harvard, after 
Whitney visited the gate annie the university in which he was then 
of Colorado with a small party, in- 
eluding four of his on (Archi- 
bald R. sc ne, Henry Gannett, 
Joseph H. Bridges, and William M. 
Davis) Ss the mining school at Har 
vard. object was chiefly to deter- 
mine i aus of the loftiest ranges 
that he could reach, regarding which 
a brief report was published in Peter- 
teaching; while the next higher sum- 
mit immediately to the south in the 
same range (14,172 feet), was named 
Mount Yale, after the university 
from which he graduated 30 years 
befo The Mount Princeton 
was atin a few years later to the 
fine mass nae feet) ake: south of 
Mount Yale. 
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