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The roof of the house projects over the thermoimeters, affording a 

 partial shelter from rain. The walls of the building, with the 

 high eastern hills, shade the instruments until late in the after- 

 noons of summer, when they are exposed to the rays of the sun 

 for about an hour. The thermometers are about 12 feet above the 

 ground and 1 foot distant from the window. 



The rain-gauge is located about 40 feet from the western siide of 

 the house, its top being 2 feet above the ground. 



EASTERN PLATEAU — MADISON COUNTY. 



Station^ Hamilton, at Colgate Academy — Prop. W. F. Lang- 

 worthy, Observer. 



Established June, 1894; latitude, 42 deg. 49 min. north; longitude, 75 deg. 35 min. west; 

 elevation, 1,000 feet. 



Colgate academy is situated at the outskirts of the village of 

 Hamilton and has practically the free exposure of the open 

 country. The station is located on the broad valley-bottom; hills 

 of a moderate elevation beginning at a considerable distance from 

 the academy. 



Dry and wet^ maximum and minimum thermometers are placed 

 in a louvred shelter of standard dimensions and construction, 

 which is supported at a height of 2 feet above a board platform, 

 and 12 feet above the ground. It is about 100 feet distant from 

 the academy in an open field, and there are no obstacles to a free 

 air circulation. 



A rain-gauge is secured to a comer post rising above tbo plat- 

 form und is about 13 feet above the ground. 



