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 "Five of these latter," he says, "have received names from British navigators and traders. The other five have received from American travellers, Mr. Kelly (Hall J.) the names of deceased Presidents of the Republic." Farnham names them as follows: Mount Tyler [Baker], Mount Harrison [Rainier], Mount Van Buren [Olympus], Mount Adams, Mount Washington [Hood], Mount Jefferson, Mount Madison, [Diamond Peak?] Mount Monroe [Scott?], Mount John Quincy Adams [McLoughlin], Mount Jackson [Shasta]. It will be noticed that Mount Saint Helens is omitted, and that Mount Adams is designated either the present Mount Adams or Mount Saint Helens. "Mount Washington," says Farnham, "lies a little north of the forty-fourth degree north [error], and about twenty miles south of the Cascades." Farnham gives widely erroneous latitudes of these mountains. Hall J. Kelley applied Presidents Range to the mountains now known as Cascade Range. His memoir, dated January 31, 1839, in the report of Caleb Cushing of Massachusetts, chairman of the House committee on foreign affairs, January 4, 1839, says, on pages 53-54: "The eastern section of the distrct referred to is bordered by a mountainous range [Cascade] running nearly parallel to the spine of the Rocky Mountains and to the coast, and which, from the number of its elevated peaks, I am inclined to call Presidents Range." See Oregon Historical Society Quarterly, volume XVIII., page 282, et seq., by Fred Wilbur Powell; also supplemental report, Territory of Oregon, Report No. 101, Twenty-fifth Congress, third session, House of Representatives.

In a footnote Kelley adds: "These isolated and remarkable cones, which are now called among the hunters of the Hudson's Bay Company by other names, I have christened after our ex-Presidents, viz.:

Washington, latitude 46 degrees, 15 minutes [Saint Helens]; 