Mount Rainier

Mount Rainier is noted in Farnham's Travels, our volume xxix, p. 33, note 30.

Many other delightful excursions are open to one who pitches his tent in the alpine meadows on the south side of Mount Rainier.

That Mount Rainier should still retain so much of its internal heat is not surprising in view of the recency of its eruptions.

Within the belt the annual addition of snow to the ice fields is greater than anywhere else on Mount Rainier.

It lies in lava and other volcanic rocks, to be sure, but these are merely spreading layers of the cone of Mount Rainier.