386 Ninth Annual Report of the 



WESTERN PLATEAU — CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. 

 Station, Arkwright — Miss Etta L. Wilcox, Observer. 



Established in August, 1890; special temperature station; latitude, 42 deg. 25 min. north; 

 ODgitude, 79 deg. 15 min. west; elevatiivn, 1,8G0 feet. 



This station is situated about 6 miles east-southeast of Dunkirk, 

 on the range of hills which borders the shore of Lake Erie. The 

 writer's observations of an aneroid barometer give the elevation 

 of this station as approximately 685 feet above the level of Lake 

 Erie. The thermograph is located at the house of Mr. E. I. Wil- 

 cox, which stands on the northern slope of a ridge rising above the 

 general level of the hills to a height of 200 or 300 feet,, half a mile 

 in the rear of the station. The ground falls away from Mr. Wil- 

 cox's house toward the north and west, so that there is an unob- 

 structed view toward Buffalo plains and over Lake Erie. The 

 station is somewhat sheltered from the south winds by the ridge 

 mentioned, but air currents from all other directions have a free 

 circulation about it. The shelter of the Draper thermograph is 

 placed at the eastern end of a northern piazza, at a height of 4J 

 feet above the floor and 7 feet from the ground. The eastern and 

 western ends of the piazza are formed by wings projecting about 

 7 feet from the body of the house ; the thermograph being placed 

 about 1 foot distant from the outer side of the piazza. The rayi 

 of the sun are excluded from the shelter and its vicinity at all 

 times, excepting possibly for an hour in the late afternoons of sum- 

 mer. 



WESTERN PLATEAU — CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. 

 Station^ Jamestown — Mr. N. D. Lewis, Observer. 



Established In November, 1895; latitude, 42 deg. 06 min. north; longitude. 79 deg. 

 16 min. west; elevation, 1,321 feet 



This station is situated in the city of Jamestown, on the crest of 

 a hill extending in an easterly and westerly direction. The sur- 

 rounding country is hilly, mainly a moraine formation, intersected 

 by short valleys. 



