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dimensions are about 3| by 2^ feet at the base and 3 feet in lieigjlit. 

 The sides are of board (unpainted), with a door of the width of the 

 shelter on the east side. Ventilation is obtained by spaces about 

 one-eighth of an inch in width between the boards, and by a large 

 number of holes bored in the sides at such an angle that rain is 

 excluded. The top double, with an air space, and has a slight 

 slope. The thermometers are hung near the center of the shelter. 

 The rain-gauge is placed on a post 4^ feet above the ground, that it 

 may be above snow-drifts. The only obstacles to a free circula- 

 tion of air in the vicinity of the gauge is a hedge of shrubs 20 feet 

 distant and about 12 feet in height. 



WESTERN PLATEAU — STEUBEN COUNTY. 

 Station, South Canistbo — Mr. James E. Wilson, Observer. 



Equipped November, 1889; latitude, 42 deg. 12 min, north; longitude, 77 deg. 34 mln. 

 west; elevation, 1,480 feet. 



This station is situated in the valley of a creek, 5 miles south- 

 southeast of the town of Canlsteo. The hills rise abruptly from 

 the valley at distances ranging from 100 to 200 feet on the eastern 

 and western sides of the station. The high ridges of the surround- 

 ing country are separated by deep valleys similar to the one in 

 which the station is located, opening northward toward the Canis- 

 teo river. The highest point in the neighborhood is the -''Swale," 

 about 3 miles east of the station. 



The dry and wet and the maximum and minimum thermometers 

 are exposed under a piazza of Mr. Wilson's house, 5 feet in width 

 and facing the northeast. The thermometers are secured to a 

 window of the house with air space between. Canvas is spread 

 along the front of the piazza to exclude the rays of the morning 

 sun from the instruments and also from the piazza floor. The 

 thermometers are 5 feet above the ground. 



The rain-gauge is 20 feet distant from the nearest building 10 or 

 12 feet in height, and about as far from a few small fruit 

 trees. The height of the top of the gauge above the ground is 2 

 feet. 



