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18,053 ft. Mean temperature, 56.75 deg.--approximate difference in elevation 18,053 ft. +248 ft. Latitude, 64 deg.--approximate difference in elevation 18,301 " +17 " Mean temperature, 56.75 deg.--approximate difference in elevation 18,301 " +112 " Elevation lowest, 329--approximate difference in elevation 18,301 " +16 " ------ Elevation above Fort Gibbon 18,446 ft. Elevation of Fort Gibbon 334 " ------ _Elevation above sea_ 18,780 ft. FOOTNOTE: [7] "Sushitna" represents unquestionably the native pronunciation and the "h" should be retained. The reason for its elision current in Alaska is too contemptible to be referred to further. Perhaps the same genius removed this "h" who removed the "'s" from the "Cook's Inlet" of the British admiralty. One is not surprised when a post-office at Cape Prince of Wales is named "Wales" because one is not surprised at any banalities of the postal department--in Alaska or elsewhere, but one expects better things from the cultured branches of the government service. It is interesting to speculate what will happen to Revillagigedo Island, which Vancouver named for the viceroy of Mexico who was kind to him, when the official curtailer of names finds time to attend to _it_. If there be a post-office thereon it is probably already named "Gig." CHAPTER VIII EXPLORATIONS OF THE DENALI REGION AND PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS AT ITS ASCENT The first mention in literature of the greatest mountain group in North America is in the narrative of that most notable navigator, George Vancouver. While surveying the Knik Arm of Cook's Inlet, in 1794, he speaks of his view of a connected mountain range "bounded by distant stupendous snow mountains covered with snow and apparently detached from each other." Vancouver's name has grown steadily greater during the last fifty years as modern surveys have shown the wonderful detailed accuracy of his work, and the seamen of the Alaskan coast speak of him as the prince of all navigators. Not until 1878 is there another direct mention of these mountains, although the Russian name for Denali,
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