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EASTERN PLATEAU — ORANGE COUNTY. 



Station, Port Jervis — Professor John M. Dolph, Observer, 



Established November, 1S89; special temperature station; equipped with a thermo- 

 graph in December, 1890; latitude, 41 deg. 21 min, north; longitude, 74 deg. 40 min. west; 

 elevation, 470 feet. 



Port Jervis is situated between the Delaware and Neversink 

 rivers, at a short distance north of their point of junotion. The 

 valley of the Delaware makes an abrupt turn at this point, from 

 the southeast to the southwest, the Neversink river entering from 

 the northeast at the bend. The surfaee rises gradually toward 

 the 'north in the vicinity of the station, which is about 50 feet 

 above the river .surface. Biit beyond the city limits high hills 

 close in abruptly about the valley. 



The therimometers and thermograph are exposed in a louvred 

 sfhelter built substantially after the pattern employed by the 

 United States Weather Bureau. The shelter is about 20 feet 

 from the northeasrtern side of the house, and 3 feet above the 

 ground. 



The rain-gauge is placed upon a post at a height of 4 feet 8 inches 

 above the ground, between two low buildings whose roofs rise 

 above the gauge to a height about equal to their distance from it. 



EASTERN PLATEAU — OTSEGO COUNTY. 



Station, Cooperstown — Mr. G. Pomerot Keese, Observer. 



Established 1854; latitude, 42 deg. 41 min. north; longitude, 74 deg. 57 min. west; eleva- 

 tion, 1,300 feet. 



Cooperstown is situated in the valley at the southern end or foot 

 of Otsego lake, hills rising abruptly on the eastern and western 

 sides of the town. The stream flowing south from the lake 

 through a narrow valley, forms one of the principal sources of the 

 Susquehanna river. The meteorological station is 200 feet south- 

 west from the shore of the lake, and is sufficiently isolated from 

 the buildings of the town to admit of a very free air circulation. 

 The hills on the eastern and western sides of the valley are re- 

 spectively one-half and three-fourths of a mile from the station. 



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