. The Rockies of Canada; . d the distance of the highmountain, which we supposed might be Mt. Hooker,to be a little more than seventeen miles. The work-ing out of the final logarithms to get the height wasvery exciting, and everyone waited impatiently, asI added up the final figures. Well, the mountainis over twelve thousand eight hundred feet high,anyway, said I, much pleased at the result, whichwould make this the highest measured mountain insouthern Canada. The excitement of the calculationmust have been too great for accuracy, however, asI found a moment later. In wandering around amongtan
. The Rockies of Canada; . d the distance of the highmountain, which we supposed might be Mt. Hooker,to be a little more than seventeen miles. The work-ing out of the final logarithms to get the height wasvery exciting, and everyone waited impatiently, asI added up the final figures. Well, the mountainis over twelve thousand eight hundred feet high,anyway, said I, much pleased at the result, whichwould make this the highest measured mountain insouthern Canada. The excitement of the calculationmust have been too great for accuracy, however, asI found a moment later. In wandering around amongtangents and sines, I had gotten in the wrong columnsomewhere, and after a hasty revision, Mt. Hookerfell twenty-three hundred feet and came down toten thousand five hundred feet never to rise again,and our enthusiasm fell with it. Meanwhile Stephens and Barrett had built a fineand seaworthy raft. Leaving Tom Lusk in charge ofour main camp, on August 19th we piled our luggageon the raft and commenced a voyage to the other end.
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