Mount Whitney a mountain in E California: the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and in continental US (excluding Alaska). Height: 4418 m (14 495 ft)
Whitney2 (ˈwɪtnɪ)
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Eli. 1765--1825, US inventor of a mechanical cotton gin (1793) and pioneer manufacturer of interchangeable parts
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William Dwight. 1827--94, US philologist, noted esp for his Sanskrit Grammar (1879)