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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 38
Hight of Our Mountain Peaks
Hight of Our Mountain Peaks.
Mr. A. W. Chase, of the United States Coast Survey, furnishes the Anaheim Gazette with the following elevations of the peaks of the Sierra Madre mountains, commencing at the western end of the range and taking only the most prominent elevations:
| Peak D | 6,385 | feet |
| Peak E | 7,890 | feet |
| Peak F | 8,377 | feet |
| Peak G | 9,266 | feet |
| Peak H, San Antonio Mountain, | 10,142 | feet |
| Peak I | 8,753 | feet |
| Peak J, Cucamonga Mountain | 8,774 | feet |
The two blue peaks behind the San Joaquin rancho, adjacent to Silverado, are: Eastern peak, 5,596 feet; Western, 5,700. The hights are from the level of the sea at mean high water, and were determined trigometrically, and the results can at present be regarded only as approximate on account of the refraction of the atmosphere. To test the relative value of the determination of mountain hights in the southern portion of California by trigonometry, and the measurement of zenith distances by barometrical measure ent and by leveling, Prof. Davidson will institute a series of comparisons sometime in the future, when San Antonio mountain will be leveled.