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nate name seemed likely to stick, but it has at last been forgotten, 

 and Mount Whitney stands now the highest point within the imme- 

 diate boundaries of the United States, 14,501 feet, this figure being 

 the result of two lines of levels run by the U. S. Geological Survey. 



The Kaweah Peaks were named by the Brewer party after the In- 

 dian tribe of the San Joaquin Valley — at least this name so appears 

 on the original Hoffmann map. The first ascent of the main Kaweah 

 peak was made by a party consisting of J. W. A. Wright, F. H. 

 Wales, and Judge Wallace, of Visalia, in iSSi."^ Its height is given 

 as 13,816 feet by the U. S. Geological Survey. The Black Kaweah 

 (13,752 ft.), a far more difficult climb, was first ascended by J. S. 

 Hutchinson, Duncan McDuffie, and O. I. Brown in 1920.! This 

 peak was originally called Mount Abert by the Wright party in 

 1881. 



There are of course many other equally fine peaks in the Sierra 

 Nevada, but their naming is of a comparatively recent date, most of 

 the data being given in various issues of the Sierra Club Bulle- 

 tin. The mountains mentioned here, however, are particularly inter- 

 esting as being the most prominent, and, due to their prominence, 

 have been the first named and described. 



*Guide to the Grand and Sublime Scenery of the Sierra Nevada. 1883. W. W. Elliott 

 & Co. Page 48. 



f'Colby Pass and the Black Kaweah." By J. S. Hutchinson. Sierra Club Bulletin, 

 vol. XI, No. 2, Jan. 1921, page 133. 



