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"the 'nearer range' (or [illegible] end of Mt. Saw) Macgregor
Peaks and the 'more distant' (or Mt. Jean)
D'Albertis Dome. But returning again to Macgregor's
concept of the Victor Emmanuel Range, we read
(p. 60) that the Victor Emmanuel Range
lay directly behind a lower range which he
called Mt. Donaldson. "In between the
north-east end of Mt. Donaldson and the Victor
Emmanuel there is fitted the bold western end
of a very steep & rugged mountain range" (named
by him Mt. Blucher), and "a large branch
of this mountain [Blucher] proceeds for about
its central portion in a north-easterly
direction [i.e. Mt. Tungom]... but whether
it joins the great Victor Emmanuel Range
farther north couldn't be seen." He
states that his "plate 4 indicates the appearance
of the foregoing from a distance of 'twenty-
twenty-five miles'; but when the ranges which
according to the drawing are plotted it would
prove to have been much closer; and besides,
see also a few sentences before, he states
that Donaldson was 'about ten miles' away.
From "plate 4" it seems that the mass of
hills to the west marked "a" & carrying a