Notice of the explorations of the Geological Survey of California in the Sierra Nevada during the summer of 1864

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Abstract
the Sep~ember number of this Journal (vol.xxxviii, page 298) a notice wa.'! inserted giving a sketch of the explorations of the Geological Survey of Oalifornia in the High Sierra about the heads of King's and Kern rivers (latitude 36° 30' to 37°).It was mentioned that Mr. King had, on the 6th of July, ascended a peak over 14,000 feet high, and that he was about to make an attempt to reach a point still higher, which was one of two in sight from, and higher than, the peak he had just been on.Since the last number of the Journal was issued, some further particulars have been recAived with regard to the peak ascended on the 6th of July, to which the name of Mt.Tyndall was given, and also a brief account of the attempt made to' get on to the nighest points.'rhe ascent of Mt.Tyndall was a very difficult and dangerous one; but the summit was reached without accident' either to Mr. King or his companion, although the trip required that several nights should be spent at an elevation of over 12,000 feet, of course without fire, and with but scanty covering.From the summit of Mt.Tyndall, which is considerably over 14,000 feet high, there appeared two other peaks of equal elevation and two still higher, all within a distance of-seven miles of this.Mr. King says, "of the two highest, one rose close by, being hardly a mile away; it is an inaccessible bunch of needles.r:I.'he other was equally inaccessible from any point on the north or west side.'rhe first•mentioned was about 150 feet above U!Cl, the other was six or seven miles distant and I should think fully 350 feet higher than the peak we were ou.Within our field of view were five mountains over 14,000 feet and about fifty over 13,000.The five highest peaks are all in the eastern ridge.Owen's valley, a brown sage plain, lies 10,000 feet below on the one side, and Kern canon, once the roaky bed of a grand old glacier, 4000 feet down on the other.About fifteen miles nOI•th of here, King's river cuts through the western tidge and turns at a right angle toward the plain.North of this point, again, the two great ridges unite In a grand pile of granite mountains, whose outlines are all of the most rugged and fantastic character.Twenty-five miles south, the high group ends, there (certainly for a breadth of sixty miles) forming one broad, rolling, forestcovered plateau, 8000 to 9000 feet in elevation.""From Mt.Brewer to Kaweah Peak, the two culminating points of the western ridge, for a distance of fifteen miles, there is nothing that can be called a separate mountain: it is, rather, 1\ great mural ridge, capped by small sharp cones and low rag-ged domes, all covered with little minarets.At one place the ridge
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Authors J. D. Whitney
Journal american journal of science
Year 1865
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10.2475/ajs.s2-39.115.10
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https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.s2-39.115.10
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