nteix, Camille.= A member of the Society of Jesus. =Index=: =F=
On the _Jesuit Relations_, 30. =Bib.=; _Les Jesuites et le Nouvelle
France au XVII^e Siecle_.

=Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of= (1730-1782). Born in
Yorkshire, England. Educated at Westminster School and St. John's
College, Cambridge. In 1746 served as a volunteer against the Jacobites.
In 1765 premier of a coalition ministry opposed to royal grants and
general warrants; from 1768 to 1781 leader of the opposition in the
House of Lords, during which time supported the proposals to grant
independence to the American colonies. In 1782 again became prime
minister. Throughout his political career upheld the contentions of the
American colonists, and opposed to royal encroachments. =Index=: =Dr=
Forms Cabinet, 192. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._

=Rocky Mountain Fur Company.= Founded at St. Louis, in 1822, by William
H. Ashley. The field of its operations was the Upper Missouri country.
After an adventurous career of twelve years, in which Ashley, Andrew
Henry, M. G. Sublette, and other well-known western American traders
took a leading part, the company was disbanded at the annual rendezvous
in Green River Valley, in the summer of 1834. =Index=: =D= Made famous
by the enterprise of the trader Ashley, 134; re-establishes commercial
communication between United States and Oregon, 134. =Bib.=: Chittenden,
_History of the American Fur Trade_.

=Rocky Mountain Portage.= Leads across an elbow of the Peace River, in
the mountains, about long. 122 deg., to avoid a series of dangerous rapids.
First used by Alexander Mackenzie in 1793, on his expedition to the
Pacific. The North West Company had a trading post here for many years;
and one was afterwards maintained by the Hudson's Bay Company, but has
long since been abandoned. =Index=: =D= Simon Fraser's first post built
in 1805, 97. =Bib.=: Burpee, _Search for the Western Sea_.

=Rocky Mountains.= Commence in New Mexico, and extend north to the
Arctic coast, west of the Mackenzie River. The highest known peaks in
the Canadian Rockies are Mount Brown (16,000 feet) and Mount Hooker
(15,690 feet). The general altitude of the range varies from 10,000 to
14,000 feet. The following are the principal passes in Canada: Boundary,
6030 feet above the sea; Kootenay, 5960 feet; Crow's Nest, 4845 feet;
Kananaski, 5985 feet; Vermillion, 4947 feet; Kicking Horse, 5420 feet;
Howse, 6347 feet; Athabaska, 7300 feet; Yello