Rossiter W. Raymond 



' Why is it not ? ' insisted King. I told 

 him I had been, only a year before, 

 on the upper part of that very snow- 

 field, and that it showed neither ice nor 

 crevasses. I thought the turbidity of 

 the water was due to volcanic dust. 



"Six years later, in 1870, King 

 discovered actual glaciers on Shasta, 

 and in 1871 described them in the 

 Atlantic Monthly and in the Ameri- 

 can Journal of Science. Two years 

 later, or ten years after our fording 

 the turbid stream, he said to me, 

 ' That stream haunted me for years, 

 until I got on Mount Shasta and 

 found the glaciers ! ' 



" That was an illustration of the 

 way in which his retentive as well as 

 perceptive mind stored up, and ulti- 

 mately used, the facts and suggestions 

 it had once received. Another occurs 

 to me. On our trip, in 1863, I talked 

 much about the value of large photo- 

 graphs in geological surveys. I had 

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