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England in the fall of the same year. Douglas came to the Columbia River on April 8, 1825. In the Oregon country he made extensive explorations. An interesting account of his activities appears in The Scientific Monthly, July, 1926, page 81, by Major John D. Guthrie of Portland. See also OHQ, from September, 1904, to December, 1905. The Royal Horticultural Society published a Journal Kept by David Douglas, in London in 1914. After two years' activities in the Oregon territory and Canada, Douglas returned to England in September, 1827. Douglas later made additional explorations in the Oregon country, and then went to the Hawaiian Islands, where he met a tragic death in August, 1834. He fell into a cattle pit and was gored to death by a wild bull. For editorial comment on David Douglas and peak in Oregon named for him, see the Oregonian, December 11, 1927. Douglas may have been the first white man to climb Mount Hood. See OHQ, volume VI, bottom of page 309.

MOUNT DEFIANCE, Hood River County. This is a well known landmark west of Hood River Valley and has an elevation of 4960 feet. It was named by Dr. P. G. Barrett, an early settler in the Hood River Valley, because the mountain was the last to hold its snow in spring, thus defying the elements. Mount ELIJAH, Josephine County. Mount Elijah, elevation approximately 6400 feet, is in township 40 south, range 6 west, and is about a half a mile southwest of Lake Peak. The Oregon Caves are under its northwestern slopes. The name Mount Elijah was adopted by the USBGN in 1930-31 in honor of Elijah J. Davidson, a prominent pioneer of southern Oregon, who discovered the caves in 1874. Previously the mountain was known as Cave Mountain and Sand Mountain, but these names were not well established.

MOUNT EMILY, Curry County. F. S. Moore, a pioneer of the county, says this name is the white man's version of the Indian name Emney. See Curry County Reporter, December 16, 1926. The meaning of the Indian name is not known. Maps show this mountain with various names including Mount Emery and Chetco Peak, but the real Chetco Peak is farther east. The government has officially adopted the form Mount Emily, even though it does not exactly conform to the reported Indian pronunciation. Mount Emily became famous in 1942 as the result of an attack, apparently by a small airplane based on a Japanese submarine. In September bombs and incendiary material were dropped near the lookout, with negligible damage.

MOUNT EMILY, Union County. There is a story to the effect that a family named Leasy lived at the foot of this mountain in pioneer days. Leasy weighed about 100 pounds and his wife nearly 300, and it is said that Leasy named the mountain for his wife, Emily, because of her great size. There is another history of the name to the effect that a very popular young lady named Emily lived on the slopes of the mountain in early times, and she was often visited by the young men of La Grande, who christened the mountain because they so frequently went up to Mount Emily.

MOUNT FANNY, Union County. "The beautiful peak on the summit of the mountain range east of the Cove is called 'Mt Fanny' in honor of Mrs. Fanny McDaniels, one of the first women to settle in the Cove-in 1862-and the first white woman to reach its summit, which she did in June, 1863." This quotation is from Geer's Fifty Ount