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The President's range is in every respect the most interesting in Oregon. It is a part of a chain of highlands, which commences at Mount St. Elias, and gently diverging from the coast, terminates in the arid hills about the head of the Gulf of California. It is a line of extinct volcanoes, where the fires, the evidences of whose intense power are seen over the whole surface of Oregon, found their principal vents. It has twelve lofty peaks; two of which, Mount St. Elias and Mount Fairweather, lie near latitude 55o north; and ten of them which lie south of latitude 49o. Five of these latter have received names from British navigators and traders.
The other five have received from American travellers, and Mr. Kelly, the names of deceased Presidents of the Republic. Mr. Kelly, I believe, was the first individual who suggested a name for the whole range. For convenience in description I have adopted it. ...
Mount Tyler
[Mount Baker]
is situated near latitude forty-nine degrees north, and about twenty miles from the eastern shore of those waters between Vancouver's Island, and the continent. It is clad with perpetual snow.
Mount Harrison
[Mount Rainier]
is situated a little more than a degree south of Mount Tyler, and about thirty miles east by north of Puget's Sound. It is covered with perpetual snow.
Mount Van Buren
[Mount Olympus]
stands on the isthmus between Puget's Sound and the Pacific. It is a lofty, wintry peak, seen in clear weather eighty miles at sea.
Mount Adams
[Mount St. Helens]
lies under the parallel of forty-five degrees, about twenty-five miles north of the cascades of the Columbia. This is one of the finest peaks of the chain, clad with eternal snows, five thousand feet down its sides.
Mount Washington
[Mount Hood]
lies a little north of the forty-fourth degree north and about twenty miles south of the Cascades. It is a perfect cone, and is said to rise seventeen thousand or eighteen thousand feet above the level of the sea. More than half its height is covered with perpetual snows.
Mount Jefferson
[Mount Jefferson]
is an immense peak under latitude forty-one and a half degrees north. It received its name from Lewis and Clark.
Mount Madison
[]
is the Mount McLaughlin of the British fur-traders.
Mount Monroe
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is in latitude forty-three degrees twenty minutes north, and
Mount John Quincy Adams
[Mount McLoughlin]
is in forty-two degrees ten minutes; both covered with perpetual snow.
Mount Jackson
[Mount Shasta]
is in latitude forty-one degrees ten minutes. It is the largest and highest pinnacle of the President's range.
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