New York Weather Bureau. 



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TABLE 17. 

 Time of arrival of first hoat at Platisburgh, 1843 to 1891. 



[Record of the " Plattsburgh Republican," furnished by C. F. Bixby, Editor and Proprietor.] 



TABLE 18. 



Record of sleighing across Lake Champlain on the ice, between 

 Plattsburgh and Burlington, from 1868 to 1883, inclusive. 



[From the "Plattsburgh Republican."] 



Average. 



January 23 | March 



19 



TABLE 18 A. 



The followino; table of water levels of Lake Cham plain is fur- 

 nished by Mr. Bixby from the records of the Plattsburgh Repub- 

 lican. 



Average for twelve years 



0.5 I 13 



