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The maximum and minimum thermometers are exposed in front 

 of the drug store of Messrs. Ford, on the north side of Main street. 

 The instruments are 6 feet above the sidewalk. Direct sunlight 

 is excluded by an awning; but the pavement is liable to become 

 heated in the early morning and the late afternoon. 



The rain-gauge is mounted at the center of the flat tin roof of 

 the business block, at a height of about 40 feet from the ground; 

 the bottom of the gauge resting upon the roof. 



EASTERN PLATEAU — SCHUYLER COUNTY. 

 Station, Perry City — Mr. W. H. Jepfers^ Observer. 



Equipped wjtli standard instruments in December, 1889; latitude, 42 deg. 03 mln. north; 

 longitude, 76 deg. 44 min. west; elevation, 1,038 feet. 



This station is located about 4 miles west-southwest of Trumans- 

 burgh, on the hills west of Cayuga lake, from whose shore it is 

 about 6 miles distant. Mr. Jeffers' house is situated on the west 

 bank of a brook which, after flowing southward 50 rods, meets a 

 larger stream emptying into Cayuga lake; the ground rising grad- 

 ually from the valley of the creek toward the northwest and south. 

 At a distance of 8 miles to the s'outh is the range of Newfield hills, 

 whose summit reaches an altitude of 2,100 feet; and a similar 

 high tract of land lies to the west of the station near Seneca lake. 

 The valley in which the station is situated, with others opening 

 out of it, form an irregular depression extending through this 

 western range of hills. 



The maximum, minimum, wet and dry bulb thermometers are 

 exposed in a shelter built on the north side of a low wing of Mr. 

 Jeffers' house. The bottom of the shelter, which is about 4^ feet 

 above the ground, is constructed of slat work, which cuts off radia- 

 tion from the sod. The sides are louvred in the manner adopted 

 by the Signal Service, and a slanting roof and a door opening 

 toward the north are provided. 



The rain-gauge is about 80 feet east of the house and about 30 

 feet south of a corn house. The gauge is 2 feet 9 inches above the 

 ground. 



