Rossiter W. Raymond 



words, which I treasure with affec- 

 tionate pride : ' To Professor W. H. 

 Brewer, my earliest and kindest Sierra 

 friend, to whose friendly guidance I 

 owe my first and my most charming 

 mountaineering, with the unchanging 

 regard of the Author.' 



" I may be permitted to introduce 

 here a reminiscence which is likewise 

 most gratifying to me, as showing 

 the part which I unconsciously took 

 in bringing Clarence King to Cali- 

 fornia, and thus initiating the career 

 which was to make him illustrious. 



" Both during our earliest confer- 

 ences and on several later occasions, 

 King told me that Mount Shasta 

 was the magnet that had drawn 

 him irresistibly to the Pacific coast. 

 This magnificent mountain then pos- 

 sessed a pre-eminence in popular 

 estimation which it no longer pos- 

 sesses. It was believed to be the 

 highest peak in North America. Its 

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