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But we 5 seat still a third test. While I was busy with my 
aoe, Mr. Belshaw improvised a still more perfect level, by taking 
a pint cup, fe inches in Hiindien and filling it heaping Full of 
water—i.e., so that the water stood hi igher oe the edge of the 
cup all around the rim, yet without overflowing. hen this was 
face of the water, that the other peak was higher than the one on 
which we stood by an amount which we both of us estimated to 
be not less than 500 or 600 feet 
As to the proofs that the peak which we climbed ts not the one 
originally named Mount Whitney by Professor Brewer's party, 
in 1864, they are numerous; and among them are the following: 
In the first place, Mr. Clarence King, in 1864, on reaching the 
summit of Mount Tyndall, See as follows, in the Geological 
cord Report (Geology, vol. 1, 
“On setting the level, it was seen at once that there were two peaks equally 
high in sight, and tw' ~ still more elevated—all within a distance of seven oar 
hardl e ; it is an in t 
bunch of needles, ae we gave it the name of Mount be repre The other, which 
we called Mount Whitn tney, nee equally inaccessible from any point on 
north or Fives side; it is between seven and eight miles distant, in a south-south- 
n, and, I should think, fully 350 en higher than our peak.” 
abd investigation showed that it was really 600 or 100 feet higher than Mow 
‘yn 
Now, the peak which we climbed is certainly not. 350 feet i 
than Mount T Tyndall, but very nearly the same altitude. In fact, 
as closely as we could judge by our water-level at such a distance, 
Mount Tyndall appeared a ha the higher of the two. fore- 
h i i 
between beans and thirteen miles distant from it, in a direction 
about 8S. 37° E. true course; while the genuine Mount Whitney 
(ie., the highest gare is lioesrsaek distant from Mount = ‘ 
only about seven and one-quarter miles in a direction 4 ee 
S. 26° E. true oa aise corresponding exactly wit “iffer 
remark of King’s in 1864. It is evident enough that this nah 
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no means likely to make in his estimate of the distance 1m gins 
while the direction 8. 26° E. also corresponds far more ag 
to Mr. King’s words, “a south-southeast direction, than 
course of 8. 37° E. does. the 
Again, after Mr. King’s ascent of Mount Tyndall, an into 
turn of the party to Visalia, Mr. King made another doen of 
the mountains, leaving Visalia, July 14, 1864, for the pol iealia 
making an attack on Mount Whitney. He followed from informa 
a rk which appears, so far as his ago ~— ere 
a oe River. 
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