Geology and Natural History. 3809 
King’s ascent of this peak is given in his “ Mountaineering in the 
Sierra Nevada,” pp. 264-281. 
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in company with Mr. C. F, Hoffmann and Mr. Alfred Craven, I 
made a trip for the State Geological Survey through Owen’s Valley 
and the Inyo Mountains, this peak was the object of constant 
observations by us for a month or more, under the name of Mount 
summit has been found there, with his name inscribed upon it. 
There can, therefore, be no mistake as to the identity of this peak 
with the one ascended and measured by Mr. King in 1871. 
I do not mention the fact that Mr. Belshaw and myself reached 
its summit in the saddle as being one of any new or specia! lr 
terest ; for Mr. Sheriff Mulkey, of Inyo County, accomplished the 
same thing on the 6th day of August, 1872, with his family (1e., 
his wife and daughter), and since that time it has also been done 
by several other parties. 
ut there is some interest in the fact discovered by Mr. Belshaw 
and myself, when we reached its summit—that this peak is not 
ount Whitney. : 
It is by no means the highest among the grand cluster of peaks 
which form this culminating portion of the Sierra Nevada; nor 
is it the peak which was discovered by Prof. W. H. Brewer and 
party, in 1864, and then originally named by them Mount 
For the truth of such a statement as this, after the mountain 
has become so famous, I shall of course be expected to produce 
my evidence. 
ow, then, in the first place, do I know that this so-called Mount 
six miles from the observer, is considerably higher than the one 
on which he stands. * * #* 
_ My second proof of the relative altitude of these two peaks is 
the following : : a 
ad no spirit-level with me; but [ did have a miner’s com- 
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though it struck a little higher than before (thus showing a slight 
‘ror in the instrument), nevertheless still struck far below the 
Peak. This, if the sighting along the edge of the plate was cor- 
Tectly done, is proof positive that the distant peak is the higher. 
