in different places mt. sneffles riefflls, ne$7es, Sna e7, and S ff 1 Th 11' 41 1, ne e s. e spe ing Sneffles was unfortunately used on C M li C t . . . s s up to and including the year 1920. The spelling is "Sneffles" in (1) The Colorado Mountain Club lists of 1913, 1914, and 1920, (carefully compiled by Ellsworth Bethel and James Rogers). (2) in most books and articles, and (3) in Roger W. Toll's "The Mountain Peaks of Colorado", 1923, (a ook regarded as a monument of painstaking care). The spelling is "Sneffels" in (1) Rhoda's account of his ascent, the first ascent, on September 10, 1874, and in Hayden's Atlas, (2) in Henry Gannett's "A Gazetteer of Colorado", U. S. G. S., Bulletin No. 291, 1906, (3) on R. D. George's Geologic Map of Colorado, 1913, (4) on the Montrose Quadrange of the U. S. Geological Survey (and the town Sneffels on U. S. G. S. Silverton Quadrangle, 1904), and (5) in The Colorado Mountain Club list, revised 1921 and revised 1923. There is no possible doubt that the correct spelling, as fixed by Jules Verne's "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth", is "Sneffels". Roger W. Toll sends me the following account of his examination of i i or g n of the name of mount Sneffels in Jules Verne's book: "The story of `A Journey to the Centre of the Earth ' ( itt i 1864 b , wr en n ) y Jules Verne, begins with the discovery,, a learned professor and his nephew, of an ancient manuscript, covered w4unic symbols, which he determined were of Icelandic origin.,
