We encamped beside this stream, ...
I then ascended the mountain to the east for 1000 feet
above our camp, reaching the limit of the woods after 500 feet.

One morning I climbed up the same slope. Looking at Hector's map the centre mountain would appear to be the one he named Mount Lefroy. Today's, Mount Lefroy is located further north.

Check this for yourself. Here you will find Hector's map alongside a modern map


In any case, John Henry Lefroy, R.A. (1817 - 1890) was a noted astronomer who measured the magnetic declination at a number of points in Canada as well as the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena. He was head of the Toronto Observatory from 1842 - 1853 and in later years was governor of the Bermudas and Tasmania

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