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and west and by the Pennsylvania State line on the south will 

 be the playground of Western New York and the Nature-Study 

 Paradise of which this article treats. The territory is wholly 

 mountainous in character; the Alleghany Valley being 1390 feet 

 above sea level is not included, owing to the fact that at present 

 most of it is comprehended as the Alleghany Indian Reservation 

 and consequently cannot be touched, but the Park area with its 

 more elevated valleys, and richly forest-clad mountains, can well 

 do without the valley of the river, for within it are scenic beauties 

 comparable to much of the Adirondacks and the far famed Cat- 

 skills in the East. The peaks often reach an elevation of 2500 

 or 2600 feet and the valleys extending from east to west contain 

 clear, stony mountain brooks that in the vernacular of the region 

 are called runs. Thus we have Quaker Run, Stony Run, Coon 

 Run and m.any other fine trout streams that are equal to any 

 that the writer has seen, and these gurgle their musical way 

 through gorge, hollow and broad valley to empty their limpid 

 waters into the turbid and black currents of the Alleghany. 



Five or six miles from the broad black river up the beautiful 

 Quaker Run Valley, the Roosevelt Field Club Camp of the Buf- 

 falo Society of Natural Sciences was established. The Camp 

 site was ideal, being situated, as it was, in a grove of young 

 deciduous trees on the banks of Quaker Run with noble Mount 

 Seneca towering above and protecting it to the north. The 

 Camp was a model institution large enough to accommodate 

 100 campers at a period. It was opened on Aug. 1st and ran 

 for 5 weeks filled to capacity by young and old Nature Students 

 alike, to the closing date. The writer was in charge of the field 

 work at the camp. 



Why the New State Park is a Nature-Study Paradise. In age, 

 the region is mainly upper Devonian although the early Carbanif- 

 erous is represented on some of the loftier peaks. Geology, 

 then, played an important role in the field studies undertaken 

 by the visiting students. In some fine outcropping ledges fossils, 

 mainly Devonian, were found in abundance. Brachiapods and 

 Crinoids created great interest among the students, owing to 

 their fine state of preservation and extraordinary numbers. The 

 Olsan Conglomerate, most beautiful of all the conglomerates, 

 owing to the abundance and beauty of the pebbles found in it. 



