Biographical Notice 



taken a fancy to stereoptical views 

 especially ; and I thought the broken 

 country about Lassen peak should 

 be photographed, and could not be 

 shown satisfactorily by drawings. In 

 later years King was the first to carry 

 out these ideas on a grand scale ; and 

 now the camera is an indispensable 

 part of the apparatus of field-work in 

 such surveys. Many similar instances 

 might be given in which King- did the 

 things of which others had dreamed." 



The foregoing reminiscences of 

 his friend and, at that time, his im- 

 mediate chief, abundantly indicate 

 the qualities of ambition, energy 

 and endurance which soon won for 

 the young athlete of Yale recog- 

 nized leadership in the field. The 

 story of his ascent of Mount Whit- 

 ney (14,898 feet above tide), the 

 highest peak in the United States, 

 outside of Alaska, affords an inter- 

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