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WESTEEN PLATEAU — CATTARAUGUS COUNTY. 

 Station', Humphrey — Mr. Charles E. Whitney, Observer. 



Equipped (by Signal Service) I885-188G ; laticude, 43 dog. 13 raia. norih; longitude, 78 deg. 

 34 min. west; elevation, 1,950 feet, as determined by aneroid readings; no data have 

 been previously obtainable, and consequently the height given in the report of 1889 is 

 very much in error. 



The station is about 10 miles northeast of the G-reat Valley sta- 

 tion of the New Y^ork, Lake Erie and Western railroad. It is near 

 the summit of a ridge of hills^ 350 feet above, and on the north- 

 west side of a stream which flows into the Allegany River at Great 

 Valley station. The hills in this section rise to an average height 

 of 1,900 or 2,000 feet above tide, and are intersected by numer- 

 ous deep valleys. 



Mr. Whitney's station is situated between two knolls, toward 

 the east and west respectively, whose summits are from 50 to 80 

 feet above the station. 



The dry and wet bulb and the maximum and minimum thermome- 

 ters are placed under the roof of a piazza facing toward the south, 

 in an angle formed by the main portion of the house and a wing on 

 the eastern side. The iheight of the thermometers above the 

 ground is about 7 feet; above the floor of the piazza, 5| feet_, and 

 below its roof, 3 feet. The width of the piazza is 4 feet. The 

 thermometers are hung several inches away from the wall of the 

 building. 



The rain-gauge is situated about 45 feet north-northwest of the 

 main portion of the house. Two or three dwarf fruit trees are at 

 a distance of 12 or 15 feet, and are the only obstacles to a free cir- 

 culation of air in the vicinity. The top of the gauge is 4 feet above 

 the ground. 



An anemometer placed at this station is mounted on the south 

 gable of the house, 7 feet above the ridge and about 30 feet above 

 the ground. 



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