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4 01334 on their heels and indignantly retrace their steps, if that be possible to mortals after once passing the celestial
threshold. Can not you as an established writer and an acknowledged authority on the subject of mountains, lift your pen in
influential protest against this outrage on history and geography, and dispresect to the rights and memory of the brave and
distinguished Vancouver? I believe it was Winthrop who stated the idea of calling the mountain Tacoma. When the City of Destiny
was yet in the swadling clothes illegible of a village its designers caught on to Winthrop's innovation, and, reinforced by
the N.P.R.R. Co. with its cops of advertisers and writers, have persistently endeavored to fix the name of Tacoma upon the
mountain Has an original and time-honored discoverer no rights that a modern 51? (Tacoma) name-destroyer is bound to respect?
The Tacomaite argues that Tacoma is the original Indian name of the mt., and that it is more euphonious. Can they show that
the Indians had a name for the mountain (distincitve) before Vancouver beheld it from the Pacific, or in its greater glory
from the nearer waters of the illegible Sound? Granting the force of the Indian argument, the name Tacoma as pronounced by
the inhabitants of the City of Destiny does not resemble with proper exactitude the name of the mountain as it is uttered
in the peculiar guttural intonation of the aborigines. The book to my boy Hal and the one to little Miss Kernahan came safely
to hand. I will send Miss Ruth's to her at the earliest opportunity. My boy returns. Thanks.