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104 Wheeler, Mt.—Name: By the Topographical Survey after A. 0. Wheeler at that time in charge of the survey.

Altitude: 11,023 feet.

Location: The most easterly mássif of the Purity Range; at the south-west corner of the Déville Névé.

Route: Reached, from Glacier House by the Asulkan trail and Pass, Geikie Glacier, Dawson Moraine, Donkin Glacier and Pass, Bishop's Glacier and Névé; thence following the southerly arm of the névé between the Bishop's and Purity Ranges and ascending the snow-slopes to its summit.

Climb: Chiefly on snow.

Time required: 3 days with camp; 2 nights below Donkin Pass on Mitre Creek. All camp supplies must be carried on the shoulders. Unless skilled in mountaineering, a guide is necessary.

View: The summit commands an exceptionally fine series of views: South, lie the Grand Glaciers in a chaotic confusion of crossed crevasses and grotesque'séracs, the well-defined medial moraine from Grand Mountain showing clearly; while across the glaciers rise the snow-terraces and mounds of Mt. Sugar Loaf. East, the summit overlooks Deville Névé, the Dogtooth Mountains and the Spillimaclieen Moimtains beyond the Beaver Valley: and across the Dogtooth Mountains on a clear day can be recognized the peaks of Mt. Goodsir and the sharp point of Chancellor Peak. North, the view carries the length of the Déville Névé across to the Illecillewaet Névé with Sir Donald at its northern extremity; and includes the serried peaks of the Bishop's Range. West and south-west there is the long sweep of glaciers flowing north from between the peaks of the Purity Range and the snowy peaks themselves; next, there are the Battle Glaciers, their three medial moraines sharply defined and their confluent hanging glaciers lining the west side of the Battle Amphitheatre, those "glacierettes" which noiu-ish the trunk below.

Whistler Falls—Name: By the Topographical Survey, with reference to the number of hoary marmots (Arctomys Columhianus) found in the rocks about them.

Location: On a stream flowing from a glacier between Mt. Ursus Major and Catamount Peak. At the falls the stream comes leaping down the steep northern slopes of Cougar Valley and joins Upper Cougar Brook a quarter of a mile above the point where the brook first disappears into the Caves of Cheops.

Witch Tower, The—Name: By the Topographical Survey.

Altitude: S.080 feet.

Location: A fantastic group of rock-shapes on the north-western shoulder from the summit of Mt. Fox. It is situated immediately above the camp at the Dawson moraine. The configuration suggests a number of hideous old giant beldames leaning from the parapet of a rock-tower and scattering vituperation broadcast over the earth.