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Full Title	Beadle's monthly, November, 1866.
Date Added	29 January 2017
Format	Journal
Language	English
Publish Date	1866-11
Publisher	New York : Beadle and Company
Source	Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Topic	Popular literature > Specimens.
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OCR ,<‘(‘h 'xL't3t...L.wV‘ ‘ r-"=1"-I I BEADLES MONTHLY. NOVEMBER, 1866. ‘ii- I.‘ At T J‘ S l a MOUNT SIIASTA. v S SECOND ASCENT OF MOUNT SHASTA. 1‘ OUNT SHASTA, not only the’ most striking topographical feature of northern California, but the largest and grandest peak of the Cascade and Sierra evada ranges,’ stands alone, at the south- er‘: 0I1,(1 of Shasta. Valley, in ‘latitude I1 30 north, longitude about 122" West. '1 3DDroaching it from the north and 501131. therenis a gradual increase in the Clevation of the country for about fifty 3“19S- (The region near the base itself "13 attains an altitude of three thousand film hundred feet above the sea, and forms 3 Vast pedestal for the Giant Buttefi “ml: August, 1854, Captain E. D. Pierce, Sllperintending the Yrcka Water m‘;'?rl’3I1y’s saw-mills, informed a few of i tends that he had succeeded in reach- 113‘ Shasta summit, and invited them to " Lieutenant H. ‘L. Abhotfg Report. attempt, with him, a second ascent. IT gladly accepted the invitation, and, in- company with Captain Charles llIcDer- mit, was soon on the way to the saw.- mills--the appointed place of meeting’-4 at the south end of Shasta Valley. The Indians say this Valley was originally called Tclzaste, and the mountain Yuma ;-the Snowy; also Wi-e-gkah-the.’Wliite eof which Yreka is a corruption. The mountain was known, however, to.-the early whites as Tclzastci Peak--its pure, cold mass suggesting the chaste as a suit-- able interpretation of the name. The superstitious red-men beheld it‘ ’ with awe, believing its inaccessible sum- mit to be the home of evil spirits, that hid away in the clouds and shook the earth when angry. Colonel Fremont, writing, in 1843, of lesser peaks further north, says: “They have never yet . ‘Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1806, by Beanmz AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Ottice of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Von. II.-24.