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 Adams, latitude 45 degrees, 10 minutes [Hood];Jefferson, latitude 44 degrees, 10 minutes [same];  Madison, 43 degrees, 50 minutes [Three Sisters]; Monroe, 43 degrees, 20 minutes [Diamond or Thielsen];  John Quincy Adams, 42 degrees, 10 minutes [McLoughlin or Pit];  Jackson, 41 degrees, 10 minutes [Shasta]." 

These positions are erroneous, like Farnham's. It will be noted that Kelley omits Mount Hood, and names that peak Mount Adams. Farnham omits Saint Helens and applies Washington to the peak (Hood) about twenty miles south of the Cascades (of Columbia River).

These presidential names were started by Hall J. Kelley, and were confused by later writers, who adopted his names but not his locations. In this way, difference of names appears as to Mount Adams, Mount Saint Helens, Mount Hood and other peaks. The original names remain with Mounts Hood, Saint Helens, Rainier, Baker and Jefferson; otherwise with Adams, Three Sisters, McLoughlin and Shasta.

John Work, in his journal (Oregon Historical Society Quarterly, volume X, pages 308-09, by T. C. Elliott), calls Mount Adams Mount Saint Helen, Mount Saint Helens Mount Rainier, and Mount Rainier Mount Baker.

The name Cascades was first that of the narrows of the Columbia River, which yet bears the title. This name of the Columbia River narrows is used commonly by writers as far back as the Astor expedition. In the report of the committee on foreign affairs of the national House of Representatives, Caleb Cushing, chairman, February 16, 1839, is the memoir of Kelley, which names the mountains Presidents Range and also a memoir of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, dated February 4, 1839, which uses the name Cascade Mountains. In Greenhow's History of