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that caused Bob to remark, "Hope white man find my record some 

 day." We reached Telegraph Creek at midnight, much to the relief 

 of our friends, who intended to start a searching party the next day. 



The green ridge that we had ascended is bounded by two streams 

 which, while spreading far enough apart, perhaps four miles, at 

 their junction with the Stikine to form the flat on which the old town 

 stood, form converging ravines toward the top. From the upper 

 slopes of the ridge, the town lay perhaps halfway between south and 

 southwest. This agrees with Muir's statement that the mountain 

 lies northeast of the town. 



It is open to question whether our route was throughout identical 

 with Mr. Muir's. Mr. Young* mentions "a small glacier on our 

 right" that "had to be crossed." We, on the contrary, did not have 

 to cross this glacier, and it appeared on the left-hand, and far below 

 us only as we neared the end of our rather long traverse across the 

 ridge crest. Our general direction up the grassy slopes was northerly, 

 and to gain the meadow where we lunched we made a considerable 

 detour to the right, having elected to work around the rock-shoulders 

 occurring at an elevation of 3700 feet in this manner. If Muir 

 turned to the left at this point, it would in all probability account for 

 Mr. Young's observations. In fact, in descending, we noted that the 

 most direct route was across a portion of the glacier, but the descent 

 from the rocks to the ice appeared so precipitous that we dared 

 not try it. Muir doubtless found some safer route; but the feat he 

 performed in getting the injured man down was remarkable in 

 the extreme and cannot but heighten our admiration for the great 

 mountaineer. 



I am reliably informed that Mr. Muir carried a valuable aneroid 

 on his mountaineering trips, and Mr. Young f states that the instru- 

 ment showed "a height of about seven thousand feet at the base of 

 the great cliff that crowned the summit." Muirf says: "The peak 

 on which these observations were made is somewhere about seven 

 thousand feet high," but he believed the town of Glenora to have an 

 elevation of one thousand feet, whereas its true altitude is about 450 

 to 500 feet.§ The instrument I carried was a Goulier aneroid 

 having a dial about one and three-quarter inches in diameter. It 



* Loc. cit., p. 25. I can see no resemblance between Glenora Mountain and the illus- 

 tration in this bock, 

 t Loc. cit., p, 26, 

 t Loc. ext., p. 95. 



§ Private communications from Department of Mines, Province of British Columbia. 



