Presidents Range
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The Presidents' Range.-- In his Memoir of 1839 Kelley said
"The eastern portion of the district referred to [southwestern Oregon] is bordered by a mountain range [the Cascades] 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 the Presidents' range. 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.:
1. Washington [St. Helens], latitude 46 deg. 15 min.;
2. Adams [Hood], latitude 45 deg. 10 min.;
3. Jefferson, latitude 44 deg. 30 min.;
4. Madison [Three Sisters], latitude 43 deg. 50 min.;
5. Monroe [Diamond or Thielsen], latitude 43 deg. 20 min.;
6. J.Q. Adams [Pitt or McLoughlin], latitude 42 deg. 10 min.;
7. Jackson [Shasta], latitude 41 deg. 40 min."
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Excerpt source found at "Google Books" website, 2008.
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