Rossiter W. Raymond 



Whoever cares to unravel the in- 

 tricacies of this narrative will find in 

 Mr. Hague's article, already cited, 

 an efficient guide. To me, I must 

 confess, the only important and in- 

 teresting item in the series is the 

 circumstance that in 1873, as soon as 

 he had heard of the observations 

 of Mr. Goodyear, Clarence King, 

 though no longer connected with any 

 public work requiring from him 

 further attention to the matter, left 

 New York, and, at his own expense, 

 traveled without a moment's delay to 

 the locality concerned, and ascended 

 the true Mount Whitney, simply to 

 settle, for his own satisfaction, the 

 question which (to use the felicitous 

 phrase quoted above by Prof. Brewer) 

 would otherwise have " haunted him." 



Another incident of his work 



in California deserves mention — 



namely, his discovery in January, 



1864, on the Mariposa estate, of 



327 



