Rossiter W. Raymond 



esting and, in some respects, amusing 

 illustration. 



The whole somewhat complicated 

 story is told in an article by Mr. 

 Hague in the Overland Monthly for 

 Nov., 1873, from which it appears : 



That the name of Mount Whitney 

 was given in 1864 to the highest of a 

 noble cluster of peaks at the head- 

 waters of the Kern and King rivers 

 by a party of the California Geologi- 

 cal Survey, under the direction of 

 Prof. Brewer, and including Clar- 

 ence King, which was at work in 

 that region during the summer of 

 that year, and some of whom (in- 

 cluding King, of course — when was 

 he ever left out, if an adventure was 

 on the programme ?) ascended a peak 

 which they called Mount Tyndall, 

 from which they saw two others, 

 still higher, to the loftier of which 

 they gave the name of Whitney, 

 their distinguished chief ; that later 

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