TABLE OF HEIGHTS IN THE SECOND DISTRICT. 



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for the present. The valley of the Mohawk being comprehended in another district, will not 

 require from me farther notice. 



I shall cojnplete this general view of the Second District, by a table of heights of some of its 

 most important points. The heights have been obtained principally by means of the barome- 

 ter, a few by the theodolite, others by estimation or comparison ; conceiving that, even by the 

 latter mode, in the absence of means for correct determination, is bettor than none, inasmuch 

 as they are considered in all instances to be within one hundred feet of the truth. The ge- 

 neral elevation of the country is thereby ■ approximated, and wc are able to form a better 

 conception of its features. 



TABLE 



Of Heights of some of the most important points in the Second District, above tide. 



FEET. 



Lake Champlain, 93 



Summit of ihe Champlain Canal, 147 



Bulwasga Mountain, 1,260 



East Moriah Four Corners, 790 



Bald Peak, Westport, 2,065 



Raven Hill, ElizabetlUown, 2,100 



Pass of the road summit between East and 



West Moriah 1,546 



Pondsville, W. Moriah, in the Schroon Valley, 1,117 



Pass of the range to Johnson's, 1,375 



Dix's Peak, 5,200 



Nipple Top, - 4,900 



Schroon Mountain, 3,200 



Pass between Johnson's and Adirondack,.. . 2,592 



Boreas River Bridge, 2,026 



Boreas Mountain, 3,726 



Hudson River Bridge, 1,810 



North River Mountain, 3,fi00 



Lake Sandford, 1,820 



Adirondack Iron Works, 1,889 



Lake Henderson, 1,936 



Lake Colden, 2,851 



Avalanche Lake, 2,900 



Highest source of the Hudson 4,747 



Whiteface, 4,900 



Lake Pleasant, 1,500 



Tapper's Lake, 1,545 



Preston Ponds, 1,700 



Cranberry Lake, 1,570 



Height of the pass between the Schroon and 



Ausable, 2,756 



FEET 



Mount McMartin 5,000 



Mount Mclntyre, 5,183 



Mount Marcy, 5,407 



Lower Saranac Lake, 1,527 



Upper Saranac, 1,567 



Stoney Ponds, 1,536 



Foot of Racket Falls, 1,538 



Long Lake, 1,575 



Forked Lake, 1,704 



Racket above Forked Lake, 26 



Racket Lake, 1,731 



Eighth, Seventh and Sixth Lakes of the Ful- 

 ton chain, 1,720 



Fifth, Fourth, Third, Second and First of the 



same chain, (appro.\.) 1,645 



Lake Eckford of the Eckford chain, 1,791 



Owl's Head, 2,706 



Owl's Head above Long Lake, 1,121 



Rich Lake, 1,547 



Newcomb Lake, 1,698 



Adirondack Pass, 2,817 



Mount Seward, 5,100 



Mount Emmons, 4,000 



Santanoni, 5,000 



Taylor's Mountain, 4,500 



Summit of the northern route of the Cham- 

 plain railroad 1,089 



Summit of the southern route of the Cham- 

 plain railroad, 1,737 



Ogdensburgh above Lake Champlain, 143 



Wallface .Mountain, 1,000 



Geol. 2d Dist. 



