Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-24

me p0ST.iNTElllcEMcER PUB. co.
sssttie. June 10. 1883.
noCyTAIss o. wAsuISGToN TKR.
RITo9Y.
BY =. T. COLEMAN.
Mount Baker, fourteen miles south Of
ths boundary line OF the British Posses
sions, was named BY Vancouver, who
Art explored these coasts. in eompli-
ment 70 his third lieutenant, Joseph
Baker, who discovered IL. Its Indian
name Ia Tukullum, or White Stone.
Tho hight, 1854 feet, IN from trigon-
ometyical measurement made by Capt.
Lawson, Of the United States Coast
Hurvey. BY aueroid barometer found
4 70 be 1866 feet; but a. Capt. lawson
informed me that his instruments ara
very 6ne, and as he 10 An 0flloer of high
soisntiic attainments, perhaps his esti-
mate Ia tho more correct Of the two.
Il will be as we'll TO remark here that
ths nights of these peaks, ~ given, do
not furnish q standard of their hight
according to Alpine estimates of the
snow and glacier travel 70 be got
through In ascending mountain. For,
owing 10 q higher latitude, the snow
line u much lower than In the Alps,
consequently there IL Q greater amount
Of glacier or snow TO be travelled over,
e before hintod. / determined the
snow line on Mount Baker TO b 5l75
fest BY aueroid barometer, but consider
that for the coast generally Il may bo
takeu at 6000 feet. 30 that mountain
Il 1900 feet In hight on the Pacific
dope affords ~ much ioe and snow
work a. ono Of 1900 fest In the Alps.
Owing to the extraordinary clearness of
the atmosphere, Mount Baker can be
plainly made out from the nsiQhbor-
hood of Victoria, Vancouver Island, q
distance Of nearly eighty miles In An air
line, and on its southwestern slope en-
ormous snow fields as seen 70 extend
very low down the mountain.
II was 6rst asoended in August, 1863,
BY party which organized, consisting
Of Mr.. Thomas 6tratt0u, Inspoct0e q
Customs Of Port Townsend, Mr.. John
Tsnnent, Mr.. David Ogilvis Of Victoria,
end myself. described the journey In
Harpsr's AagaxiNs for November, 1853,
under the title Of "Mountaineering on
The Paci6c," and the main facts were
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