The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 104 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. Vancouver as part of his annexationfor George III. The utihty, beautyand historic fitness of the significantIndian place names did not occur toa generation busy in ousting the In-dian from his land; but our grand-fathers remembered George and other patriotic men of thetime proposed to call the Cascades thePresidents Range, and to chris-ten the several snow-peaks for indi-vidual ex-presidents of the UnitedStates. But the second quarter of thelast century knew little about O
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 104 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. Vancouver as part of his annexationfor George III. The utihty, beautyand historic fitness of the significantIndian place names did not occur toa generation busy in ousting the In-dian from his land; but our grand-fathers remembered George and other patriotic men of thetime proposed to call the Cascades thePresidents Range, and to chris-ten the several snow-peaks for indi-vidual ex-presidents of the UnitedStates. But the second quarter of thelast century knew little about Oregon,and cared less. The well-meant butpremature effort failed, and the onlynames of the presidents which havestuck are Adams and Jefferson. Lewisand Clark mistook Mount Adams forSt. Helens, and estimated it perhapsthe highest pinnacle in Geological Survey has found itsheight to be 12,307 feet. MountAdams was first climbed in 1854 bya party in which were Col. B. F. Shaw, Glenn Aiken and Edward J. Allen. MOUNT ST. HELENS. The world was indebted for its first knowledge of Mount St. Helens to Van
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